#hope

"Truth {Couplet} Since every truth worth saying, has been already said,our job's to refine it, question it, or turn it on its head."

"Say This to Her/Him and Just See What Happens... *I want to kiss you in places I've never kissed you before."

"Dictator [10w] Clever dictators keep their friends closeand their enemies dead."

"Everything we experience in life is designed to shape our characters."

"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."

"She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?"

"Miracle [10w] The greatest unacknowledged miracle is man has lasted this long."

"He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted."

"The Coming of LightEven this late it happens:the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, sending up warm bouquets of air.Even this late the bones of the body shine and tomorrow’s dust flares into breath."

"Somalia Haiku For a Somalian, heaven's drawing water from a well in an earthen pot."

"Ranger Smith, Unemployement and the Possibility of Unperceived Existence If a tree falls in the forest and we're not there,do we fire the park ranger without making a sound?"

"A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour."

"One Philosophical Question, Two Faces [10w] 'Is life wort living?' is tantamount to'Does God exist?"

"A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe."

"Time is Not a Constant [10w] Time speeds up, crawls, compresses and expands depending on mood."

"Mingling Defined [10w] Superficial people engaging with superficial people on a superficial level."

"Murder [10w] Two coats of paint doen't get rid of a ghost."

"Why Utopias Fail When you tie several horses together and one takes the lead, they all fall."

"First Day at Harvard [10w] Smartest kid in the roomwalks into room of competitors."

"One who has hope lives differently."