hope

I’m in the best headspace I have been in … years? I find myself hopeful and optimistic pretty much every day.

I consider this done.

Feeling bad, crying bad, tired of trying bad, achy bad, hurt bad.

Is this all there is?

Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
—H.L. Mencken

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
—Mason Cooley

Hope and despair ignore one another’s cries.
—Mason Cooley

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.
—Jean Kerr

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
—Václav Havel

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

—Samuel Johnson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tunes without the words—
And never stops—at all—

—Emily Dickinson