#hope

"Good vs. Great [10w] To be good twice is a true mark of greatness."

"I want him to love me as much as I love him."

"I left my phone number on a napkin, along with trace amounts of spaghetti sauce and garlic bread grease, hoping she’d call me. And when she didn’t, I panicked and filed a missing person’s report with the police."

"Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs."

"Women Kissing :-)*(-: Women kissing publicly it has all the sincerity of an Israeli soldier hugging a Palestinian secretly checking for an explosive vest.* ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿’̿’̵͇̿̿з=(இಠ ᴈ muah εఠയ=/̵͇̿̿/̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿*自"

"Mind led bodyto the edge of the precipice.They stared in desireat the naked abyss.If you love me, said mind,take that step into silence.If you love me, said body,turn and exist."

"Don’t hope you will receive help from the words of life because they all bring you to death."

"It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not."

"Out to Lunch [10w] Behind closed doors, there's nothing we rightfully can call crazy."

"Money Can't Buy Everything [10w] Money can't buy everything ~ but love is certainly no exception."

"Love's core purpose is to always inspire us to become more wholesomely ourselves because of love's experience."

"Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.p.207"

"Competition is healthy. Especially when all your competitors are unhealthy, and hopefully sick and absent during the competition."

"Earth Smile The lip of the mountain smiles ochrewhen the drumming raindrops take root.Pigments from yellow to deep orange to brown,form crowns of light, mirrors reflecting fire ~the ire in the earth, the smirk of the dirt."

"Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can."

"Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this."

"The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth."

"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live."

"Poetry is a Ladder {C☰O☰U☰P☰L☰E☰T} {The poet's job is to create a ladder} {for the reader to enter his imagination}and☰once☰they've☰climbed☰u­p☰to☰the ☰top☰remove☰each☰rung☰by☰grad­ation"

"I wonder if rooms in an insane asylum have Do Not Disturb signs for the doors. I should hope not, because knock or no knock, every occupant in those rooms is already disturbed."