#hope

"Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed."

"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."

"If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is."

"I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones."

"Hug [10w] To embrace what you truly love,give it a hug."

"Your guardian angel never, ever stops communicating with you. I feel that at times they should be frustrated with us but they seem to have endless patience and they never ever give up on us."

"The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps."

"Brewing Poetry Comma sips between the lines,insights percolate into a 10w,a latte sonnet here, a cappuccino couplet there.A few smartass epiphanies,and something new in every brew.One final fix,voilà, the poem is fixed!I adore this caffeine,that alchemises the extraordinary into the routine,and vice versa with the unforseen.It turns blue aquamarine,and words into Mexican jumping beans."

"Shiva Haiku Sitting shiva.One more day of thisand I'll die of boredom."

"If you lose all hope, you can always find it again."

"His hope wasn't lost, it was buried, and somehow Prudence Ryland made that old grave seem much more shallow than it once was."

"Try - now's gift."

"May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours"

"Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work."

"Don't die on me,"she ordered. "You are not dying on me.""Yes, ma'am."He felt light-headed, but she was about the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. Her hair was smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arm, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful."

"Sometimes thatwhich we fearstrengthens ourspirit and givesus a splashof hope."

"What happens when you trip China's Premier Li Keqiang on a banana peel? Your wind up with an even more slippery slope."

"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us."

"I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you."

"Evolution of Love [10w] Love evolved from when one monkey handed another a blossom."