#hope

"New York Haiku "My monthly rent checkis more than you will make inyour fucking lifetime."

"Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities."

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

"Unless you're a lesbian... [10w] Feminism is not a sustainable position without giving up love."

"I waited patiently for the Lord and He inclined unto me and He heard my cry. He lifted me out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay,and He has set my feet upon a ROCK and He established my steps, and He has given me a a new song even praise unto our God; many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the Lord...the first 3 lines of an ancient Hebrew song Psalm 40:1-3"

"Take a chance..., change a 'NO' to a 'YES'today."

"Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up."

"The Road to Hell The road to hell is paved with 16 in. x 16 in. Red Brickface Concrete Step Stones.Only $2.97 each.Always in Stock atThe Home Depot."

"Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness."

"I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me."

"Siesta Mud tracked from the rice fields blazon a pathFrom kitchen to cellar escaping noon’s wrath.A quiet siesta to break the ordealOf scything and sifting and spinning the wheel.Half a dream later he returns to the fieldTo seeding earth’s furrows. massaging its yield.And when Sun descends gravely back to her tombHe tracks back to the kitchen, the cellar, his room."

"Pulling a Houdini Relationships are magic;we're always getting each other out of handcuffs and strait-jacketswhile locked in a steamer trunk underwater."

"Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost."

"Hope is possible, when you decide to believe that what you are hoping for is possible."

"Contiguous vs. Continuous Identity Identity's only preserved in death;in life it is ever-changing."

"I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault."

"We hope that we will live only because we must be with God, as alive as He is."

"Grateful [10w] + [10w] If you can't think of anything you should be grateful for,think that you can think and be grateful for that."

"Meek [10w] Blessed are the meek, for they've learned how to duck."

"Humans vs. Monkeys [10w] + [10w] Baby monkeys are much more clever than a human babies.Human babies leap ahead because of their capacity for language."