To be optimistic is NOT a blind sentiment in regard to the reality of life; but a hopeful view for the present moment

Check the couch cushions for change—and hope. I drink my coffee raw, straight out of the ketchup bottle.

By giving, you get, if you don’t give, don’t expect.

Nothing cuts as deep and unexpectedly as the illusion of hope.

When you look in the mirror and don’t like what you see, how can you expect anyone to see you unlike you see yourself. Make you someone you like, and you will learn to love...

Celebrate life as it is, let it go to find out what it could be.

A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see.

Sometimes people need to know they could be forgiven to have the strength to change.

Wherever you travel to see beauty, you find yourself and your reflection again and again.

The path i walk lights up in flames

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

Life is a drama of love, hopes, dreams, desires, and fears. To enjoy it, be bold to overcome fear.

Die Freiheit von der Hoffnung ist die vollkommene Freiheit.The freedom of the hope is complete freedom.

There were so many other people in my life.I had spent all of my time listening,learning the longings we all have in common.I never took the time to hear them in myselfand I heard them...

Gratitude is one of the greatest attitudes of the human heart.

Become someone who you want to be! Not someone who others would want to see!

You gotta show kids YOU’RE not scared (even if inside at times you are) and when you show you’re not afraid of the “monsters” then they too will stand up even when the lights are...

When we appreciate and express gratitude for the abundance in our life our lives become more abundant.

holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free.

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is...

There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don’t even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to...

We need to move fast. I’ll have to carry you, baby.” Instead of the hesitation or protest he expected, Dana wrapped her arms around his neck. His heart squeezed. No time to check her for...

The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life’s hassles.

Adversity could be an advantage in the future. To be a success, take the advantage of adversity whenever possible.

Everyday can be extraordinaryAnd ripe,Like a flower burst,If the will is there.

You don’t get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.

Follow your blisson the way to success.Mountains will moveand give you access.

If you can get life outta love, you should die trying to get love outta life.

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It...

Because of dreams, success is worth pursuing. Because of love, life is worth living.

I threw my hands in the air and said show me something.He said, “if you dare come a little closer”.

Why nots” are the doorknobs. We turn knobs and tug at doors until we find the one that opens for us. The Maker will leave that one unlocked and when we get to the other...

Everyone has a purpose of life. My purpose of life is to serve humanity.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence.

You gained experience from your past action. Set goals for the future; act now with imagination.

The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

Your perception about the world creates your thoughts, your thoughts create your desires and intention, and your intentions manifest as your reality.

When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it — delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel.It...

… the nearness of the wound to the gift,

Do according to your capability.Act according to your capacity.Go according to your curiosity.Be according to your possibility.

When you get right down to it, we don’t ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where there’s mystery, there’s hope.

When hope does awaken, an entire life awakens along with it. One comes fully to life. It begins to seem indeed that one has never lived before…Wherever hope rises, life rises.

Create your own god in your mind whom you can love, trust, and follow.

The difference between this waiting period and the wait that I had already been enduring was that I was no longer hoping that he would see me, wishing that he would work, or wondering if...

Tonight, two kids ask for an alms (they are asking for food) from me. In a moment I remembered the days I was starving, the days I lowered my pride and dignity just to ask...

We always will have some differences but still we could be happy and peaceful if we learn to love each other.

There’s no savior here. Especially not at 1:15 a.m.

Kill your fear and rule the world.