#hope

"I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland."

"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."

"Voodoo I'm phobic about pins and needles.Can I just stick a voodoo doll in the microwave?"

"I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain. --Valentine, while in Italy (pg 267)"

"Trance & Instinct The best poems come from trance and instinct;transcribing the unedited voice of universal consciousness."

"Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly."

"Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being. For years, my husband and I lived on -- and because of -- hope. Hope continues to give me the mental strength to carry on."

"Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love."

"Broken hearts, you can run, you can hide and perhaps the earth is big enough to believe you’re safe. So maybe for a moment you have escaped but hear me, hear me well. Love will find you and it will leave nothing behind."

"As I age in the world it will rise and spread,and be for this place horizonand orison, the voice of its winds.I have made myself a dream to dreamof its rising, that has gentled my nights.Let me desire and wish well the lifethese trees may live when Ino longer rise in the morningsto be pleased with the green of themshining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them."

"If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person."

"Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves."

"Maybe what River had meant was that time itself was like a river, moving steadily forward, and you got to be in a new river every day, every hour. All my life I'd felt like a lake. A lake where everyhting was contained, forever. All my experiences, all the different people I'd been, everything I'd had, everything I'd lost...I carried them around with me, all the time"

"You were standing in the wake of devastation And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown And with the cataclysm raining down Insides crying "Save me now"You were there, impossibly alone"

"We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken."

"Doublemint Gum: Double your pleasure. Double your fun... ...we're talking ménage à trois, you son of a gun."

"Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?"

"But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment."

"California Milk Processor Board: Got Milk?... ...cuz I got a fucking hangover."

"Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope."