🌈 Hope

“The lotus grows in muddy water, yet rises above the surface to bloom with remarkable beauty.”

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.”

“May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.”

“In a gentle way you can shake the world.”

“Too 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.”

“The 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.”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“Hope is patience with the lamp lit.”

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage.”

“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

“If 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.”

“If you look for perfection you will never be content.”

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.”

“The secret to happiness is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage.”

“When you arise in the morning give thanks for the light for your life for your strength.”

“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold service was joy.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you did not do than by the ones you did do.”

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”

“Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you and that you will work with these stories from your life.”

“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

“Believe you can and you are halfway there.”

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

“Patience is the companion of wisdom, and hope is the path that wisdom walks.”

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

“Where there is love there is no effort.”

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; man never is, but always to be blest.”

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun the moon and the truth.”

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

“There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

“Hope is a waking dream.”

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength the patience and the passion to reach for the stars.”

“Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

“When 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.”

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

“Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.”

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.”

“While there is life there is hope.”

“Tomorrow 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.”