"When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens." ― Anne Lamott Topic(s): Hope Tags: pinned More From Anne Lamott "When we’re dealing with the people in our family – no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs – we give from the deepest parts of ourselves." "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 odd 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 people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are." More In Hope "It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."― Lillian Hellman "When you put something out there into the world, there’s all these words you don’t want to hear, that you hope people don’t say. I don’t like anything that starts with ‘re’ – like retro, reinvent, recreate – I hate that. It’s always like living in the past – copying, emulating."― Jack White "There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing – but we all do and call it Hope."― E. W. Howe