🌈 Hope

“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.”

“I alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds deep hunger meet.”

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”

“For the world is in a bad state but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters.”

“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.”

“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“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.”

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”

“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”

“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.”

“Someday after mastering the winds the waves the tides and gravity we shall harness the energies of love.”

“Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.”

“It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.”

“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 day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created spring.”

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

“The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

“Beauty will save the world.”

“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”

“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.”

“In the course of history there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness.”

“To be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”

“Without forgiveness there is no future.”

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

“The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.”

“Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.”

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.”

“Another world is not only possible she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“There are far far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

“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.”

“And suddenly you know: it is time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”

“What is to give light must endure burning.”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”