#hope

"Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed."

"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."

"Revenge [10w] Revenge is a long game;all you need is time."

"Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something is―that it is possible, that it is significant, that it is real."

"Wheels of Change Discontentment is the wheels of change.You can either add some grease to bring about change faster,or run in front of them in protest,and be crushed by them."

"I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters."

"Glow in the Dark "You've led me from stark nightwith a love that glows in the dark."

"The love and hope that we are born with is what keeps us relentlessly moving toward joy. We get the most happiness from the simplicity of being devoid of wants and needs."

"Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive."

"If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name?"

"The Poet's Disease My body atrophies.My mind swells.Imagination's become my crutch."

"Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters."

"I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope."

"Unconditional Love [10w] If you're not giving unconditional love,you're offering conditional hate."

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

"Writer's Prayers That Don't Work "Lord, lead me from the banality of everyday life,to the gleaming one beneath the surface."

"Make It Happen!!! [10w] Don't wait for someone to fall in love with you."

"Winning vs. Losing [10w] Too often the cost of winning is losing your soul."

"Poetry Trek: 'To Boldly Go Where No man Has Gone Before' A poet must get into spaceship every dayand launch himself into metaphorical space."

"We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair."