434 quotes
“It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.”
— Epictetus
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”
— Langston Hughes
“Beauty will save the world.”
— Dostoevsky
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.”
— Vaclav Havel
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.”
— Jane Austen
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
— Maya Angelou
“Every day is a fresh beginning; listen, my soul, to the glad refrain.”
— Susan Coolidge
“We are all just walking each other home.”
— Ram Dass
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you want to lift yourself up lift up someone else.”
— Booker T. Washington
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.”
— Alexandre Dumas
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
— Cornel West
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
— Confucius
“One day I will find the right words and they will be simple.”
— Jack Kerouac
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
— Albert Camus
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”
— Chuang Tzu
“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
— Rosa Parks
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you did not do than by the ones you did do.”
— Mark Twain
“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
“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.”
— Charlotte Brontë
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
— Bob Marley
“May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.”
— John O Donohue
“There is some good in this world and it is worth fighting for.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress.”
— Kofi Annan
“May your choices reflect your hopes not your fears.”
— Nelson Mandela
“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters.”
— Thomas Merton
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.”
— Fernando de Rojas
“I dwell in possibility.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Above all trust in the slow work of God.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
— Anne Frank
“We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope for hope is born of wonder”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
— Unknown
“The sun shines not on us but in us.”
— John Muir
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The 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.”
— Henri Nouwen
“Every day is a fresh beginning; listen, my soul, to the glad refrain, and spite of old sorrow and older sinning, and puzzles forecasted and possible pain, take heart with the day and begin again.”
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”
“Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.”
— Carl Sagan
“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”
— William Shakespeare
“The world is full of suffering. It is also full of the overcoming of it.”
— Helen Keller
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
— Henri Matisse
“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”
— Dorothy Day
“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.”
— Nhat Hanh
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
— Lao Tzu
“If there is no struggle there is no progress.”
— Frederick Douglass
“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”
— Brene Brown
“A better tomorrow belongs to those who act now.”
— Anonymous
“There is infinite hope just not for us”
— Franz Kafka
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces I would still plant my apple tree.”
— Martin Luther
“There are far far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
— C.S. Lewis
“Where there is love there is no effort.”
— Mata Amritanandamayi
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with.”
— Rebecca Solnit
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
“The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present but it is a source of inspiration of vitality and of hope.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
— Seneca
“Expectation is the root of all heartache, yet without it the heart cannot bloom.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
“When we plant trees we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope”
— Wangari Maathai
“It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.”
— Wendell Berry
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness and faith is the vision that perceives that light”
— Desmond Tutu
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
— Dalai Lama
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
— Hafiz
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“Life is the sum of all your choices.”
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
— Khalil Gibran
“The good life is a process not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”
— Carl Rogers
“In everyone lives the seed of a better world.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
— Theodore Parker
“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.”
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far but none goes further.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Hope will never be silent”
— Harvey Milk
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise”
— Victor Hugo
“However difficult life may seem there is always something you can do and succeed at”
— Stephen Hawking
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
“Even the darkest night will eventually end.”
— Martin Luther King
“Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.”
— Jack Ma
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.”
“The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose.”
— Immanuel Kant
“Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.”
— King David
“Hopeful determination is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.”
“Hope is patience with the lamp lit.”
— Tertullian
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”
“Never give up today is hard tomorrow will be worse but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine”
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”
“The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud.”
“In everyone life there is a flame that can be dimmed or used to cast warmth and light.”
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”
“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
— Rumi
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
— Plato
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”
“No mud no lotus.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
— William Butler Yeats
“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out”
“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well”
— Julian of Norwich
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”
“Spring comes even after the harshest winter.”
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope”
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
— William Faulkner
“Hope smiles on those who don't give up.”
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
— Pema Chodron
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— John Wooden
“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
— Meister Eckhart
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.”
— Mary Oliver
“Hope is a state of mind not a state of the world.”
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do for peace.”
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
— Willa Cather
“Hopeful determination is not the privilege of the strong alone; it is the weapon of the weakest.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.”
“Dreaming of the morrow, the butterfly hovers above the rapeseed flowers.”
— Matsuo Bashō
“You treat a disease you win you lose. You treat a person I guarantee you win no matter what the outcome.”
— Patch Adams
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower.”
— William Blake
“Rivers do not drink their own water. Trees do not eat their own fruit. The sun does not shine on itself.”
— Pope Francis
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
— Flavia de Luce
“Because you are alive everything is possible.”
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
— Hebrews 11:1
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
— Aristotle
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“And suddenly you know: it is time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
“In order to succeed we must first believe that we can.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“Remember that wherever your heart is there you will find your treasure.”
— Paulo Coelho
“We are not called to do extraordinary things but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.”
— Jean Vanier
“Another world is not only possible she is on her way on a quiet day I can hear her breathing”
— Arundhati Roy
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.”
— Robert Frost
“Let my thoughts come to you when I am gone like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; man never is, but always to be blest.”
— Alexander Pope
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
— Margaret Mead
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
— Dale Carnegie
“Even in the winter, even in the dark, the sun does not lose its strength. It merely waits to return.”
“Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.”
— Carl Jung
“One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.”
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings hope too can be given to one only by other human beings”
— Elie Wiesel
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
— Pablo Neruda
“In all things it is better to hope than to despair.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
— Anaïs Nin
“When the world pushes you to your knees, you are in the perfect position to pray.”
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”
— Bernard Williams
“The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.”
— Orison Swett Marden
“Hope is not blind optimism. It is not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead.”
— Barack Obama
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
— Simone Weil
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.”
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“Everything 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.”
— Viktor Frankl
“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.”
“The only journey is the one within.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“When I let go of what I am I become what I might be.”
— Laozi
“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.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“We must restore hope to young people help the old give compassion to the future and welcome the stranger”
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.”
“When 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.”
— Audre Lorde
“First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.”
“Let nothing disturb you let nothing frighten you. All things are passing away. God never changes. Patience obtains all things.”
— Teresa of Avila
“It 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.”
“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
— Voltaire
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you and that you will work with these stories from your life.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
“While there is life there is hope.”
— Cicero
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”
— Socrates
“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.”
— John Wayne
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something do not wait for good things to happen to you”
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.”
“Art is the highest form of hope”
— Gerhard Richter
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“Hope is a waking dream.”
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of outcome”
“The longest way must have its close the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing the dawn will come.”
— Anne Lamott
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
“Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.”
— Stephen King
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”
— Parker Palmer
“On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree”
— W.S. Merwin
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
“If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.”
— Mary Angelou
“The darkest hours are just before the dawn.”
— Thomas Fuller
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage.”
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it is not okay it is not the end.”
— John Lennon
“The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.”
“In a gentle way you can shake the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Be 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.”
“You can not go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.”
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold service was joy.”
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. Hope is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.”
“Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
— Albert Einstein
“Do 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.”
— Epicurus
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”
“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings hope too can be given to one only by other human beings.”
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”
— Wayne Dyer
“We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“You see things and you say why. But I dream things that never were and I say why not.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”
“Believe you can and you are halfway there.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“The earth is what we all have in common.”
“In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer.”
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity.”
— Rollo May
“I have seen what a laugh can do it can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable even hopeful”
— Bob Hope
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You dont need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
“Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.”
— Jalaluddin Rumi
“Whatever you do dont shut off your pain. Accept your pain and remain vulnerable.”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.”
“I am too intelligent too demanding and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.”
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun the moon and the truth.”
— Buddha
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.”
“If you are going through hell keep going.”
— Winston Churchill
“When the world says 'give up,' hope whispers 'try it one more time.'”
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds deep hunger meet.”
— Frederick Buechner
“To be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”
“In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you.”
— Deepak Chopra
“There is no situation that is not transformable there is no person who is hopeless”
“For the world is in a bad state but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
“Man is unjust, but God is just; and justice finally triumphs.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Every wall is a door.”
“Someday after mastering the winds the waves the tides and gravity we shall harness the energies of love.”
— Teilhard de Chardin
“Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom, and hope is its handmaid.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“One day you will wake up and there wont be any more time to do the things you have always wanted. Do it now.”
“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
— Allan K. Chalmers
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness and faith keeps the light burning”
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
— Albus Dumbledore
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.”
— Oscar Wilde
“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless there is too much work to do”
“I have broken my body like bread and shared it among men. For there was so much hunger and so much bread.”
— Etty Hillesum
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
“Every child in a family comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity.”
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
“Happiness is a warm sunbeam, which may be obscured but never extinguished.”
— Hannah More
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'”
— Mary Anne Radmacher
“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”
“Happiness is a warm sunbeam, which may be obscured by the passing cloud of misfortune, but can never be extinguished.”
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
— Og Mandino
“In the course of history there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness.”
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Do your little bit of good where you are. It is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
— Hal Borland
“Where there is ruin there is hope for a treasure.”
“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.”
“If you feel too small to make a difference try sleeping with a mosquito.”
— Mother Teresa
“When you arise in the morning give thanks for the light for your life for your strength.”
— Tecumseh
“Without forgiveness there is no future.”
“In the end these things matter most: how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let go.”
— Jack Kornfield
“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
— Mary Pickford
“To live without hope is to cease to live.”
“One child one teacher one book one pen can change the world.”
— Malala Yousafzai
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“I am a slow walker but I never walk back.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The secret to happiness is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage.”
— Thucydides
“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.”
“The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created spring.”
— Bern Williams
“Where flowers bloom so does hope.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
“My 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.”
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”
“Even 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.”
“The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.”
— David Whyte
“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
“Time brings all things to pass.”
— Aeschylus
“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”
“Kindness is a form of hope that refuses to accept the worst in people”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“Nil desperandum — Never despair.”
— Horace
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
— Chinese Proverb
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“The biggest prison is the one we build in our minds.”
— Edith Eger
“Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.”
— Pliny the Elder
“I alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
“When 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.”
— Madeleine LEngle
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope”
“You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
“What 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.”
— Lord Byron
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.”
“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”
— John F. Kennedy
“The darker the night the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief the closer is God.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.”
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
“Another world is not only possible she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing.”
“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”
“For all that has been thanks. For all that shall be yes.”
“To 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.”
— Howard Zinn
“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“The flower does not dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.”
— Mark Nepo
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”
“To live without Hope is to Cease to live.”
“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
“The only way to live in any true sense of the word is through faith hope and love practiced daily”
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
“No 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.”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”
“However long the night, the dawn will break.”
— African Proverb
“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow.”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom, and hope is the path that wisdom walks.”
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
“It is always darkest just before the day dawns.”
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
“A great hope fell, you heard no noise, the ruin was within.”
“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”
— Jonas Salk
“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch feeling lucky it is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency”
“The greatest challenge of the day is how to bring about a revolution of the heart.”
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
— Corrie ten Boom
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
“Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.”
— Friedrich Schiller
“Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
“A drowning man is not troubled by rain.”
“There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing — but we all do and call it Hope.”
— Edgar Watson Howe
“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
— Pearl S. Buck
“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that would suffice.”
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
— Stendhal
“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“The only real prison is fear and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”
— Aung San Suu Kyi
“There 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.”
“Change your life today. Dont gamble on the future act now without delay.”
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
“If you look for perfection you will never be content.”
“A different world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
— Naomi Klein
“When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“When 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.”
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars”
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”
“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.”
“The 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.”
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. This light leads to peace.”
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation creativity and change.”
“Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.”
“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.”
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
“All real living is meeting.”
— Martin Buber
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“The lotus grows in muddy water, yet rises above the surface to bloom with remarkable beauty.”
“Where there is hope there is life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
“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.”
— Harriet Tubman
“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.”
“The 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.”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.”
“You 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.”
“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
“My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.”
— Ovid
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.”
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
“And when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
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