Famous Quotes

"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."

Anne Lamott on Life

More quotes about Life

• "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

  Robert Frost on Life

• "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

  Buddha on Life

• "Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."

  Will Smith on Life

• "Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it."

  Sai Baba on Life

• "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

  George Bernard Shaw on Life

More quotes by Anne Lamott

• "Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you."

• "Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

• "If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young."

• "Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you."

• "Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you."