{"quotes":[{"text":"We measure time through a mental framework trussed with two major stakes: memory and expectation. Memory is that spottiness that takes place behind the eyes: memory takes place in the cloistered theater that houses diffused still pictures. We file mental pictures that encapsulate our prior life into mental shelves for a wayward librarian to cull through and forward select recollection to the recall center whenever summoned. Expectations arise from thoughtful consideration of our future prospects in life.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["expectation","expectations","hope","hopeful","hopeful","human-consciousness","memory","recollection","recollections","time","time"],"id":1304,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"We measure time through a mental framework trussed with two major stakes: memory and expectation. Memory is that spottiness that takes place behind the eyes: memory takes place in the cloistered theater that houses diffused still pictures. We file mental pictures that encapsulate our prior life into mental shelves for a wayward librarian to cull through and forward select recollection to the recall center whenever summoned. Expectations arise from thoughtful consideration of our future prospects in life.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["expectation","expectations","hope","hopeful","hopeful","human-consciousness","memory","recollection","recollections","time","time"],"id":1304,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"The Lord shall be your comfort in times of distress.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adversity","challenges","christian","comfort","distress","hopeful","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","motivation","positive-thinking","positivity","prayer","prayer-life"],"id":1421,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["afterlife","agnostic","agnostic-atheism","agnostic-prayer","agnostic","agnostic","agnosticism","agnostics","atheism","atheism-defined","atheism","atheist","atheist-argument","atheist-arguments","atheist-claims","atheist-club","atheist-philosophers","atheist","atheistic","atheistic-philosophy","atheistic-religion","atheists","bangambiki","belief","belief-in-god","belief","belief-system","beliefs","believer","believing","debate","despair-and-attitude","despair-hope","despair","despairing","doubt","doubters","doubtful","doubtful-thoughts","doubtfulness","doubting","doubting-mind","doubts","doubts","ethics","existence","existentialism","faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","false-god","false-gods","fear-of-god","god","goddess","gods","habyarimana-bangambiki","heaven","heaven-and-hell","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","heavenly-father","heavenly-rewards","heavens","hell","hell","honesty","honesty-friendship-truth","honesty-from-within","honesty-integrity","honesty-integrity-relationship","honesty-integrity-words","honesty","hope","hope-and-despair","hope-for-each-day","hope","hopeful","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopeful","hopeless","hopelessness","hopes","hoping","integrity","integrity-of-a-salesman","integrity","life","lose-hope","materialism","meaning-of-life","morality","naturalism","paradise","paradise","paradises","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religion-vs-science","religious","religious-faith","respect","secular-ethics","self-respect","sincerity","spirituality","spirituality","spirituality-vs-religion","supernaturalism","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","there-is-no-god","unbelief","unbelieve","unbeliever","unbelievers"],"id":1477,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["afterlife","agnostic","agnostic-atheism","agnostic-prayer","agnostic","agnostic","agnosticism","agnostics","atheism","atheism-defined","atheism","atheist","atheist-argument","atheist-arguments","atheist-claims","atheist-club","atheist-philosophers","atheist","atheistic","atheistic-philosophy","atheistic-religion","atheists","bangambiki","belief","belief-in-god","belief","belief-system","beliefs","believer","believing","debate","despair-and-attitude","despair-hope","despair","despairing","doubt","doubters","doubtful","doubtful-thoughts","doubtfulness","doubting","doubting-mind","doubts","doubts","ethics","existence","existentialism","faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","false-god","false-gods","fear-of-god","god","goddess","gods","habyarimana-bangambiki","heaven","heaven-and-hell","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","heavenly-father","heavenly-rewards","heavens","hell","hell","honesty","honesty-friendship-truth","honesty-from-within","honesty-integrity","honesty-integrity-relationship","honesty-integrity-words","honesty","hope","hope-and-despair","hope-for-each-day","hope","hopeful","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopeful","hopeless","hopelessness","hopes","hoping","integrity","integrity-of-a-salesman","integrity","life","lose-hope","materialism","meaning-of-life","morality","naturalism","paradise","paradise","paradises","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religion-vs-science","religious","religious-faith","respect","secular-ethics","self-respect","sincerity","spirituality","spirituality","spirituality-vs-religion","supernaturalism","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","there-is-no-god","unbelief","unbelieve","unbeliever","unbelievers"],"id":1477,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.","author":"Billy Porter","tags":["life","me","hopeful "],"id":2086,"author_id":"Billy+Porter"},{"text":"Don't lose hope. If your hope gets lost, the other side called 'failure' begins to win! The quickest medicine to heal a depressed soul is to command; 'arise my soul and praise the Lord'. Hope is the clothe piece in which wraps a healthy soul!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["arise","arise-my-soul","begin-to-win","command","depressed","depressed-soul","don-t-lose-hope","fail","failed","failure","food-for-thought","good-health","heal","health","healthy","healthy-soul","hopeful","israelmore-ayivor","lord","lose-hope","lost","medicine","praise","praise-the-lord","quick","quick-medicine","quickest","soul","win"],"id":2368,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"No matter how bad you feel, God never sees you as a hopeless person. He may see you as a sinner who needs to be re-washed to get back to his old vision for His purpose, but He will never see you as a hopeless being.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad","bad-feeling","cleanse","feel","feel-bad","feel-bad-about-themselves","food-for-thought","forgive","hope","hopeful","hopeless","israelmore-ayivor","low-self-esteem","low-self-image","old","purpose","reckless","repent","repentance","salvation","sin","sinner","vision","wash"],"id":2968,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["advance","affect","aid","alter","animal","animals","ants","assist","assistance","better","black","change","cooperation","creatures","difference","effect","feel","guide","harmony","help","helping","hope","hopeful","hopeless","hopelessness","hour","human","humanity","improve","influence","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","live","living","lose","make-a-difference","one-world","power","powerful","powerless","powerlessness","realise","realize","recognise","recognize","relief","save","shape","sight","speck","spend","take","time","together","togetherness","transform","transformation","transformative","unity"],"id":4267,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect.","author":"Jane Green","tags":["disappointment","hopeful","jane-green","maturing","romantic-at-heart","st-martin-s-press","summer-secrets"],"id":5188,"author_id":"Jane+Green"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":509,"pages":51,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}