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π Hope
βTo eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.β
β Pearl S. Buck
βIn the course of history there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness.β
β Wangari Maathai
βKeep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.β
β Walt Whitman
βSomeday after mastering the winds the waves the tides and gravity we shall harness the energies of love.β
β Teilhard de Chardin
βA drowning man is not troubled by rain.β
β Unknown
βIf you look for perfection you will never be content.β
β Leo Tolstoy
βInstructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.β
β Mary Oliver
βWhen you get into a tight place and everything goes against you never give up for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.β
β Harriet Beecher Stowe
βThe world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.β
β Wendell Berry
βLet my thoughts come to you when I am gone like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.β
β Rabindranath Tagore
βHope is patience with the lamp lit.β
β Tertullian
βA life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters.β
β Thomas Merton
βThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.β
β Eleanor Roosevelt
βThe darkest hours are just before the dawn.β
β Thomas Fuller
βThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.β
β Jane Austen
βIt is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.β
βWhere there is love there is no effort.β
β Mata Amritanandamayi
βHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.β
β Emily Dickinson
βOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.β
β Kahlil Gibran
βOne day I will find the right words and they will be simple.β
β Jack Kerouac
βEvery great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength the patience and the passion to reach for the stars.β
β Harriet Tubman
βOwning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.β
β Brene Brown
βThe sun shines not on us but in us.β
β John Muir
βThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.β
β Marcus Aurelius
βWhen you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.β
β Paulo Coelho
βFor all that has been thanks. For all that shall be yes.β
β Dag Hammarskjold
βCourage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow.β
β Mary Anne Radmacher
βThings turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.β
β John Wooden
βKnowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.β
β Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
βEverything will be okay in the end. If it is not okay it is not the end.β
β John Lennon
βThe antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.β
β David Whyte
βThe greatest challenge of the day is how to bring about a revolution of the heart.β
β Dorothy Day
βThe best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.β
β Lao Tzu
βIf winter comes, can spring be far behind?β
β Percy Bysshe Shelley
βBe kind whenever possible. It is always possible.β
β Dalai Lama
βThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.β
β Maya Angelou
βBelieve you can and you are halfway there.β
β Theodore Roosevelt
βThere is some good in this world and it is worth fighting for.β
β J.R.R. Tolkien
βThere is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing β but we all do and call it Hope.β
β Edgar Watson Howe
βNever deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.β
β H. Jackson Brown Jr.
βThe peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.β
βNil desperandum β Never despair.β
β Horace
βYou gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.β
βSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.β
βHappiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.β
βWhen you arise in the morning give thanks for the light for your life for your strength.β
β Tecumseh
βLet yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.β
β Rumi
βThe future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.β
β Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
βThe biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.β
β Oprah Winfrey
βPatience is the companion of wisdom, and hope is the path that wisdom walks.β
β Augustine of Hippo
βNothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.β
β Reinhold Niebuhr
βYou never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.β
β Bob Marley
βWalk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.β
β Nhat Hanh
βThe hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.β
β Orison Swett Marden
βA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.β
βIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.β
β Antoine de Saint-Exupery
βIn all things it is better to hope than to despair.β
βThere was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.β
β Bernard Williams
βThe wound is the place where the light enters you.β
βHe who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.β
β Thomas Carlyle
βWhile there is life there is hope.β
β Cicero
βAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom.β
β Soren Kierkegaard
βIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that would suffice.β
β Meister Eckhart
βHope is a waking dream.β
β Aristotle
βThe flower does not dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.β
β Mark Nepo
βWhen we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves.β
β Viktor Frankl
βVulnerability is the birthplace of innovation creativity and change.β
βFirst say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.β
β Epictetus
βAll human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.β
β Alexandre Dumas
βI am a slow walker but I never walk back.β
β Abraham Lincoln
βThe beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.β
βIt is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.β
βThe lotus grows in muddy water, yet rises above the surface to bloom with remarkable beauty.β
βTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you did not do than by the ones you did do.β
β Mark Twain
βRemember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.β
β Stephen King
βIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.β
βGod grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.β
βThe best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.β
β Mahatma Gandhi
βFaith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far but none goes further.β
βNo one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.β
βEven the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.β
β Victor Hugo
βPerhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage.β
β Rainer Maria Rilke
βThree things cannot be long hidden: the sun the moon and the truth.β
β Buddha
βPeople have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar.β
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βEven if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces I would still plant my apple tree.β
β Martin Luther
βThe darker the night the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief the closer is God.β
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βEven after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.β
β Hafiz
βWe are not called to do extraordinary things but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.β
β Jean Vanier
βBe joyful though you have considered all the facts.β
βKindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.β
βNew beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.β
βThere is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.β
β Nelson Mandela
βWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.β
βNo matter what he always remembered that the past was lies that memory has no return and that every spring gone by could never be recovered.β
β Gabriel Garcia Marquez
βEven as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.β
βTomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.β
β John Wayne
βAction springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.β
β Dietrich Bonhoeffer
βThe human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose.β
β Immanuel Kant
βLet there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.β
βTrue hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.β
β William Shakespeare
βChange your life today. Dont gamble on the future act now without delay.β
β Simone de Beauvoir
βYou treat a disease you win you lose. You treat a person I guarantee you win no matter what the outcome.β
β Patch Adams
βWrite it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βIn order to succeed we must first believe that we can.β
β Nikos Kazantzakis
βWhen I let go of what I am I become what I might be.β
β Laozi
βHopeful determination is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.β
βHope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.β
β Vaclav Havel
βClouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.β
βWe must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.β
β Martin Luther King Jr.
βWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.β
βThe place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds deep hunger meet.β
β Frederick Buechner
βTo live without Hope is to Cease to live.β
βThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.β
β Helen Keller
βBeauty will save the world.β
βIt is always darkest just before the day dawns.β
βThe miserable have no other medicine but only hope.β
βThe natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.β
β Samuel Johnson
βWhere there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.β
β Voltaire
βLife is the sum of all your choices.β
β Albert Camus
βThe good life is a process not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.β
β Carl Rogers
βYou cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.β
β William Faulkner
βHope springs eternal in the human breast; man never is, but always to be blest.β
β Alexander Pope
βWhat you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.β
β Jane Goodall
βWe must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.β
β Joseph Campbell
βEveryone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.β
βThe lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud.β
βIn the end these things matter most: how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let go.β
β Jack Kornfield
βThere is a saying in Tibetan that at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar. The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue but that happiness does not come from wealth but from setting limits on desire.β
βI learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.β
βHappiness depends upon ourselves.β
βBetween stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.β
βWhere there is hope there is life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.β
β Anne Frank
βTo be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.β
βYou are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.β
β Pema Chodron
βA great hope fell, you heard no noise, the ruin was within.β
βYou see things and you say why. But I dream things that never were and I say why not.β
β George Bernard Shaw
βHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.β
βIf you want to lift yourself up lift up someone else.β
β Booker T. Washington
βToo often we underestimate the power of a touch a smile a kind word a listening ear an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring all of which have the potential to turn a life around.β
β Leo Buscaglia
βJust as despair can come to one only from other human beings hope too can be given to one only by other human beings.β
β Elie Wiesel
βIf it were not for hopes, the heart would break.β
βWhat is to give light must endure burning.β
βThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.β
β Marcel Proust
βWhen I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.β
β Audre Lorde
βThe day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created spring.β
β Bern Williams
βWhat is hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.β
β Lord Byron
βBe like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.β
βHope is not blind optimism. It is not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead.β
β Barack Obama
βThe most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat known suffering known struggle known loss and have found their way out of the depths.β
β Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
βAnd suddenly you know: it is time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.β
βNo winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.β
β Hal Borland
βLife will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.β
β Eckhart Tolle
βBeing deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.β
βChange your thoughts and you change your world.β
β Norman Vincent Peale
βMy hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.β
β Ovid
βIf you feel too small to make a difference try sleeping with a mosquito.β
β Mother Teresa
βWhen we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us we often find that it is those who have chosen to share our pain.β
β Henri Nouwen
βExpectation is the root of all heartache, yet without it the heart cannot bloom.β
βWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.β
βWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.β
β Plato
βYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.β
βMy mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion some compassion some humor and some style.β
βKnowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress.β
β Kofi Annan
βThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.β
β Zora Neale Hurston
βSometimes even to live is an act of courage.β
β Seneca
βIf you are going through hell keep going.β
β Winston Churchill
βReal generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.β
βFailure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.β
β Og Mandino
βThere are far far better things ahead than any we leave behind.β
β C.S. Lewis
βI slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold service was joy.β
βBe willing to be a beginner every single morning.β
βHope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.β
β Desmond Tutu
βIf you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.β
β Henry David Thoreau
βWe must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.β
βThe only real prison is fear and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.β
β Aung San Suu Kyi
βThe soul is healed by being with children.β
βIn the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.β
β Albert Einstein
βFear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.β
βWhen we were children we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability.β
β Madeleine LEngle
βNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.β
βOft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.β
βYou talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.β
β Khalil Gibran
βRivers do not drink their own water. Trees do not eat their own fruit. The sun does not shine on itself.β
β Pope Francis
βIn a gentle way you can shake the world.β
βWhen you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.β
β Wayne Dyer
βI am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.β
β Carl Jung
βNo mud no lotus.β
βHopeful determination is not the privilege of the strong alone; it is the weapon of the weakest.β
βHe who has a why to live can bear almost any how.β
β Friedrich Nietzsche
βThe most common form of despair is not being who you are.β
βIf there is no struggle there is no progress.β
β Frederick Douglass
βAlthough the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.β
βHope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.β
βSuccess is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.β
β Albert Schweitzer
βAnd when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.β
βHope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.β
βKeep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.β
βDarkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.β
βOur greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.β
β Confucius
βI have broken my body like bread and shared it among men. For there was so much hunger and so much bread.β
β Etty Hillesum
βThe friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion who can stay with us in an hour of grief is worth more than gold.β
βTo be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.β
βThe human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed.β
β Charlotte BrontΓ«
βLearn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.β
βLife is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.β
βNever forget that justice is what love looks like in public.β
β Cornel West
βAll shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.β
β Julian of Norwich
βIt is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.β
βTo live without hope is to cease to live.β
βWe are all just walking each other home.β
β Ram Dass
βA goal without a plan is just a wish.β
βIf you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.β
βWe are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.β
β Oscar Wilde
βThe secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.β
β Socrates
βEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.β
βEvery accomplishment starts with the decision to try.β
β John F. Kennedy
βI am too intelligent too demanding and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.β
βIn the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you.β
β Deepak Chopra
βPatience is the companion of wisdom, and hope is its handmaid.β
βIt may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.β
βOne child one teacher one book one pen can change the world.β
β Malala Yousafzai
βNever be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.β
β Corrie ten Boom
βYou must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean. If a few drops of the ocean are dirty the ocean does not become dirty.β
βOptimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.β
βRemember that wherever your heart is there you will find your treasure.β
βEach person must live their life as a model for others.β
β Rosa Parks
βEverything that is done in the world is done by hope.β
βFaith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.β
βThe secret to happiness is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage.β
β Thucydides
βThe opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity.β
β Rollo May
βAnd ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.β
βThere are always flowers for those who want to see them.β
β Henri Matisse
βBecause you are alive everything is possible.β
βNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.β
β Margaret Mead
βEverything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances.β
βTurn your wounds into wisdom.β
βAlthough the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.β
βThere may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.β
βSometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.β
βIn the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.β
βBefore I can tell my life what I want to do with it I must listen to my life telling me who I am.β
β Parker Palmer
βAll real living is meeting.β
β Martin Buber
βHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.β
βIn the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer.β
βI wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.β
βSometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.β
βTo be beautiful means to be yourself. You dont need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.β
βDo your little bit of good where you are. It is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.β
βTo be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history of compassion and sacrifice.β
β Howard Zinn
βRemember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.β
βFor the world is in a bad state but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.β
βThe biggest prison is the one we build in our minds.β
β Edith Eger
βOne day you will wake up and there wont be any more time to do the things you have always wanted. Do it now.β
βThe earth is what we all have in common.β
βHold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.β
β Langston Hughes
βMay you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.β
β John O Donohue
βI alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.β
βHope is a state of mind not a state of the world.β
βTo see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower.β
β William Blake
βWhere there is ruin there is hope for a treasure.β
βLet everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.β
βHope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.β
β Oliver Goldsmith
βHowever long the night, the dawn will break.β
β African Proverb
βMay your choices reflect your hopes not your fears.β
βThe purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.β
βThe essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present but it is a source of inspiration of vitality and of hope.β
βWhat we know matters but who we are matters more.β
βThe deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.β
βHope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.β
β Pliny the Elder
βIf you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.β
β Mary Angelou
βYesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.β
β Jalaluddin Rumi
βDo not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.β
βLet nothing disturb you let nothing frighten you. All things are passing away. God never changes. Patience obtains all things.β
β Teresa of Avila
βOnly in the darkness can you see the stars.β
βThe only journey is the one within.β
βIn everyone life there is a flame that can be dimmed or used to cast warmth and light.β
βBe like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.β
βIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.β
β Jiddu Krishnamurti
βWhatever you do dont shut off your pain. Accept your pain and remain vulnerable.β
β Sogyal Rinpoche
βVery little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself in your way of thinking.β
βIn three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.β
β Robert Frost
βI hope you will go out and let stories happen to you and that you will work with these stories from your life.β
β Clarissa Pinkola Estes
βThe most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly and gently.β
βOnly when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.β
βWhen the world says 'give up,' hope whispers 'try it one more time.'β
βAnother world is not only possible she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing.β
β Arundhati Roy
βSomewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.β
β Carl Sagan
βAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.β
β Simone Weil
βDo not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.β
βI am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.β
β Louisa May Alcott
βDo not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.β
β Epicurus
βHope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing the dawn will come.β
β Anne Lamott
βThe time is always right to do what is right.β
βWithout forgiveness there is no future.β
βRespond to every call that excites your spirit.β
βAbove all trust in the slow work of God.β
βIt is never too late to be what you might have been.β
β George Eliot
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