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