Hope

"But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it."

"Maybe your right. Maybe I should blame myself… Who the hell needs that?"

"Reality is not made of dreams, until you make them real."

"I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother's death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her back. All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her. There was an instability in it, a sickness. I was seeing things that weren't there. I was only one step away from some trailer park loner stalking a girl he'd spotted in the mall. For the truth of it was: Pippa and I saw each other maybe twice a year; we e-mailed and texted, though with no great regularity; when she was in town we loaned each other books and went to the movies; we were friends; nothing more. My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless, unrequited obsession any way to waste the rest of my life?"

"You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand."

"Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality."

"Happiness is an inner perception, not a reality."

"Happiness is a perceptual reality, not an absolute certainty."

"Live in your dream and then make it your reality."

"Happiness doesn't depend on reality but it depends on perception."

"In our dreams every man and woman are amazingly perfect, but in reality they have imperfections, so accept it without judgement."

"When God “saves” people in this life, by working through His Spirit to bring them to faith, and by leading them to follow Jesus in discipleship, prayer, holiness, hope and love, such people are designed – it isn’t too strong a word – to be a sign and foretaste of what God wants to do for the entire cosmos. What’s more, such people are not just to be a sign and foretaste of that ultimate “salvation”; they are to be part of the means by which God makes this happen in both the present and the future."

"Be careful what you wish for or pray for, because whatever you wish for or pray for, you will have to take care of."

"The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality."

"What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer ... What good is your reality then" ... I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice ... and I never promised you peace or happiness ... The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie...and a bore, too!"

"[Earl, on liking someone] Because, honestly, the rational part of me know for a rock-solid fact that I would never, ever get with Madison Hartner. But that was just the rational part of me. There's always a stupid irrational part of you, too, and you can't get rid of it. You can never completely kill off that tiny absurd spark of hope that this girl-against all odds, although she could date any guy at school, not to mention guys at college, and even though you look like the Oatmeal Monster and are a compulsive eater and suffer from constant congestion and say so many stupid things per day that it seems like a Stupid Things company is paying you to do it- this girl might like you."

"I Live in Poverty and That's My Inspiration"

"Believe is confident hope. Hope is faith. Faith is timeless possibility. Possibility is spiritual. Spiritual is divine"

"There were plenty of fishes in the pond,yet i fell in love with a crocodile."

"He was her reason for existence,She was his ultimate risk."