Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.

Imagination belongs to hope. It’s the creative dance of possibility.

Hope dreams into being what is possible but not yet formed.

If I’m going to have hope, I’m going to have to learn to endure disappointment.

A wish is a single unit of hope. It’s a single request for something I dearly desire.

Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience.

Don't be afraid that things are changing, because indeed they always are.

Without hope, I wouldn’t even try. Hope lifts me to consider new possibilities so I can stay the course of my desire, no matter what.

We cannot protect ourselves from disappointment and still live a fully engaged life.

Given that I don’t know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one?

When I act, I act on behalf of who or what I love. Even when I have to fight against something, it is because of what I value and love.

Stupidity is choice we make ourselves not hereditary though it could sometimes be environmentally deterministic. Repress your sinful DESIRES and see, if your stupidity will NOT reduce drastically

There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?

Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.

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