Anne Lamott Quotes

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.

I always try to be cautiously optimistic.

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.

I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false - because hope is the nub of what we are.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

Hope dies last.

No matter how dark or precarious it may seem, continue to pursue your truth.

My philosophy is that while there's life, there's hope. It's as simple as that.

I am an optimist, not a dreamer.

No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.

I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.

If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.