Places That Feel Like A Secret

Abuse Power Quietly

Accumulate Guilt

Age Like Wine

Almost Make Sense

Almost Remember

Almost Touch

Answer With A Question

Are A Complete Mess

Arrive Already Apologizing

Arrive Uninvited But Expected

Belong Elsewhere

Bend But Don't Break

Bloom

Break In Customer Service

Brighten When Ignored

Burn Like Echo

Burn Like Glass

Burn Like Glue

Burn Like Lint

Care For The Self

Catch Light

Close A Door

Close Around A Pearl

Come Back In Spring

Come Back Wrong

Come Up In Therapy

Compile In The Background

Compress You

Conceal The Flaw

Cool Too Fast

Crack Under Pressure

Cut Both Ways

Divide The Room

Don't Hold Water

Echo An Empty Room

Exhale When No One Looks

Exist Mostly In The Mind

Exist To Be Carried

Fade

Feel Dull

Feel Irreversible

Feel Lent Too Long

Feel Like A Blessing

Feel Like A Teenager Again

Feel Like Déjà Vu

Feel Like Progress

Feel Like The Weekend

Feel Misaligned

Feel Overnight

Feel Overripe

Feel Overtime

Feel Paper Thin

Feel Soft

Feel Sparse

Feel Underbaked

Feel Underdressed

Feel Underhandled

Feel Underheard

Feel Underripe

Feel Underseen

Feel Undertime

Feel Underwater

Feel Underwhelming

Feel Unfinished

Feel Unspoken

Finish Your Sentence

Flag Red

Fold Back On Themselves

Forgive By Forgetting

Germinate

Get Buried

Get Forgotten

Get Misplaced

Go Cold

Go Over Your Head

Go Red And Quiet

Have To Be Carried Across

Hum With Almost-Memory

Itch Under The Cast

Keep Talking After The Point

Knock Twice

Leave The Ground

Lift You

Look Good On Paper

Make Waiting Easier

Miss And Keep Swinging

Miss The Mark

Need A Label

Need A Lawyer

Need A Second Chance

Need Leadership

Need Reassurance

Need Watering

Need You Too Much

Never Quite Land

Pulse When Still

Put A Price On Everything

Refuse To Land

Reward Loyalty

hope

humanity

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is a buoy, but like any other buoy, it only floats... it can't be steered.

Hope, you see, Wal'r,' said the Captain, sagely, 'Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental division, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats... it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor... but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in'' Charles Dickens

is a cheap and universal cure for all ills that one endures.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Political philosopher Phillip Pettit argued that hope is a cognitive counterpart of planning while John Braithwaite argued that 'high hope people' can overcome helplessness by being better able to conceptualise their goals (Hope, Power and Governance 2004 .

is a compensation for the realities of life, most enjoyed by those who have the least to lose, since they are generally rendered much happier by expectation than they would be by possession.

hope -A compensation for the realities of life, most enjoyed by those who have the least to lose, since they are generally rendered much happier by expectation than they would be by possession.

is a confusion of the desire that something should occur with the probability that it will occur.

Hope is to confuse the desire that something should occur with the probability that it will. Perhaps no man is free from this folly of the heart, which deranges the intellect's correct estimation of probability to such a degree as to make him think the event quite possible, even if the chances are only a thousand to one. And still, an unexpected misfortune is like a speedy death-stroke... while a hope that is always frustrated, and yet springs into life again, is like death by slow torture. (Schopenhauer 'psychological observations' : 82)

is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story. John Berger

is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites... for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites... for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

is a form of self-reliance, and one must become a hope unto oneself.

Let each be a hope unto himself [i.e., each must rely on himself alone]. (Roman)

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