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