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