"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless."

-- Anne Lamott

#Giving Up Quotes #Hopeless Quotes #Reason Quotes

“In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.7, Cambridge University Press
“The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.”
“I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?”
“In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.”

Source : "Dole, in Choosing Kemp, Buried A Bitter Past Rooted in Doctrine" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 1996.
“The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.”

Source : Gilbert Highet (1976). “The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning”, Random House Incorporated
“This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.”
“I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.”
“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”

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