This is the only thing I want to keep in mind for 2012

[trouble]

"Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world."

-Jack Layton

Comments

[jae]

I only wish hope and optimism were easier for me, you know? I can do love, but the latter two may well be beyond my capacity at the moment. And I was already feeling kind of awful for feeling so cynical in the last couple of years, but now I feel like I'm betraying Jack by feeling that way.

I will do my best, though. It's a worthy goal, for sure.

-J

[onyxlynx]

I can usually dredge up a bedraggled bit of hope, but optimism has been beyond me for years. Love...may grow again.

[princess]

I have that quote pinned up next to my desk at work. I think it's a pretty good theme for 2012.