When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes expectation float hope
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. Anne Lamott findgraceleave Change image and share on social
I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short. Anne Lamott carrycrossfall Change image and share on social
We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is. Anne Lamott ashamedgodjob share on social
Do I sometimes hope I wake up in the morning and people are like, 'What's wrong with her? She looks emaciated.' Of course I would love that. I'm such a clothes whore, I would love the opportunity to be a hanger. But I think I'm more confident than I've ever felt in my life. Melissa McCarthy clotheconfidentemaciate share on social
'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money. Felix Dennis dickenexpectationfever share on social
I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods. Michael Koryta alcoholicamusebuild share on social