hope

"Sure, I had hopes and dreams before working at @McDonalds. I used to want to be a dancer and a gardener and grow movement on a farm in Iowa."

"Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."

"If we make it out of this alive, I’ll kill you. So you have that to look forward to."

"We need hope, or else we cannot endure."

"There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith."

"A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles."

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

"We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world."

"Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tommorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!"

"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."

"Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair."

"I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing."

"Hope is a risk that must be run."

"Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace."

"Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best."

"What hope is there?"I asked. "If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?"

"Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart."

"The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell."

"It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."