More quotes by Anne Lamott

"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless."
"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."
"Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage."
"When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens."
"The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out."