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I can't look at everything I've already done wrong, only the things I can choose to do right from here on out.
— J.R. Johansson, Cut Me Free
Hope is a strange thing, not to mention a common prostitute name,...
— Andy Paine, Bad Business
I argue against purism not because I want a devastated world, the Mordor of industrial capitalism emerging as from a closely aligned alternate universe through our floating islands of plastic gradually breaking down into microbeads consumed by the scant marine life left alive after generations of overfishing, bottom scraping, and coral reef–killing ocean acidification; our human-caused, place-devastating elevated sea levels; our earth-shaking, water poisoning fracking; our toxic lakes made of the externalities of rare-earth mineral production for so-called advanced electronics; our soul-and-lifedestroying prisons; our oil spills; our children playing with bits of dirty bombs; our white phosphorus; our generations of trauma held in the body; our cancers; and I could go on. I argue against purism because it is one bad but common approach to devastation in all its forms. It is a common approach for anyone who attempts to meet and control a complex situation that is fundamentally outside our control. It is a bad approach because it shuts down precisely the field of possibility that might allow us to take better collective action against the destruction of the world in all its strange, delightful, impure frolic. Purism is a de-collectivizing, de-mobilizing, paradoxical politicsof despair. This world deserves better.
— Alexis Shotwell, Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times
Technology has changed the way we work, and consequently, our posture. Today, sitting has been referred to as the new smoking. This has been exacerbated by the development of handheld devices and the onset of 'tech neck'. Take the Peterson 21 day posture challenge for 'Confident Assured Posture' for a healthy future. Stand tall and live longer.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Posture is Paramount.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
You're nobody's rainbow. You're nobody's princess. You're nobody's doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.
— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her.
— Nicole  Lyons
When there is life and you are not working towards your hope, then that hope will produce no result
— Topsy Gift
There is something charming and peculiar about a beginning. You feel it, like the change of seasons, from winter to spring, from spring to summer. You feel it; the new blood pumping inside your veins. You feel it; a thousand butterflies fluttering around your fingers to help you fly. You feel it; on your lips, when you smile at the absurdities of life that suddenly make perfect sense.You smile... Because in every beginning, there is a rebirth. Because in every beginning, there is a layer of you that you just discovered. A layer you forgot was buried in you all this time. You smile because you are reminded of the immensity of fate. You smile because suddenly you feel so small and you like it.So let's begin my dear. This life is beautiful.
— Malak El Halabi
He murmured , "Hope" is a dangerous thing,Its makes you see things that aren't there. The " pain" makes you hallucinate ,It's like dragging your torn and tired soul through the haunted woods,‎ And the light that you see at the end must be my calling! And she said , 'You are broken ...All beautiful things are broken !'A broken soul allows the "light to scatter like a Diamond
— BinYamin Gulzar
I'll keep looking- till that watery reflection of mine in your eye, rolls down as a tear. I'll keep looking till we finally look away like our lives never met. Let's cheat destiny as if we never knew each other. Let's do this last thing together.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Sometimes all it takes is a little watering everyday and a sunny day to follow, that's how weeds become flowers and new dawns rise - why would it be any less then for a human life?
— Nikki Rowe
Dreams of success often get in the way of actual success.
— Felix Long, To Conquer Heaven
For once,engulf,not air,but hope.For once,breathe on,a firm belief!
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
I have fallen,for your words.They are like,a gossamer cobweb,I have been,embroiled,decoyed,snared into!Incapacitated.I fail to escape.I fail to liberate.Your words,didn't redeem,made me a,captive instead.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn’t matter whether the person we are caring for is experiencing cancer, the flu, dementia, or grief.If you are a doctor or surgeon, your expertise and knowledge comes from a superior position. But when our role is to be providers of care, we should be there as equals.
— Judy Cornish, The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home
Even though people experiencing dementia become unable to recount what has just happened, they still go through the experience—even without recall. The psychological present lasts about three seconds. We experience the present even when we have dementia. The emotional pain caused by callous treatment or unkind talk occurs during that period. The moods and actions of people with dementia are expressions of what they have experienced, whether they can still use language and recall, or not.
— Judy Cornish, The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home
Our essential humanity is dependent upon humankind’s ability to join the past and the future with the present. Recollections and future projections grant us the ability to cogitate, analyze, and evaluate. Contrasting memories enable us to ascertain what is true and false, and determine what is charming, attractive, stunning, or sublime. Remembrance of the past serves to comfort us, awareness of the future offers us hope, while our dutiful engagement in the present is capable of arresting our complete attention.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Writers are highly resistant to reality. Just as well or the human condition would go undocumented.
— Felix Long, To Conquer Heaven
Absence is more,thorny on the soul,than however dulcet,presence can be.Apparently,I have missed you,more than,I have ever loved you.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
A jewelled garden the envy of Aladdin's cave spilled across the courtyard.
— Felix Long, To Conquer Heaven
Jin looked both ways for the Quicksilver Dragon before crossing the canal.
— Felix Long, To Conquer Heaven
The two old men were as still as the stone bench on which they sat, as though their lengthy communion with the element had turned them into statues.
— Felix Long, To Conquer Heaven
His shout was a syllable so ancient and powerful that Saffiyah's mind instantly censored it.
— Felix Long, To Conquer Heaven
How is something authorised as 'feng shui compliant' he wondered. Is there a Chinese Ministry of Magic?
— Felix Long, To Conquer Heaven
The two seasons; deepest winter from above and nascent spring from below, created a juxtaposition that drew the scene into the land of legend sitting only a heartbeat away behind a translucent river of time.
— Felix Long, To Conquer Heaven
The sand in the hour glass isn't meant to stick together. It will flow exactly same today, how it did ten years back. That's how much reliable that stuff is. The stuff that can be consistent.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
I was moving around with my imperfect, broken pieces until you came across and stitched my flaws with your words.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
I must give you this warning: your journeys will rarely ever go as you plan. You will make mistakes, and you will feel lost. Whenever that happens, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
The best of what we are lies in what we hope to be
— A.C. Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life
Anzia popote pale ulipo kwa chochote ulichonacho,Ipo siku utakuwa mtu fulan uliyetaman kuwa kwa miaka mingi
— Chrisper Malamsha
I don't know when and I don't know how, but you'll get through this. And you'll kick life in the balls just as hard as it's kicked you.
— Hester Young
Hope means you keep holding on to things that won't ever be so again.
— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
As long as we have children seeking unrealistic dreams, anything is possible.
— H.S. Crow
Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.
— Neal Shusterman, Scythe
Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.
— Jeffrey Fry
Hope has a way of casting shadows on the truth.
— Shannon L. Alder
Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be de- struction.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
As children in a small village in Sierra Leone, my friends and I dreamed of travelling the world like the missionaries who opened our village school. As a British subject, I dreamed of walking the streets of London. I imagined my self in the United States of America visiting the places where the cowboy movies were made.
— Francis Mandewah, FRIENDSHIP: A True Story of Adventure, Goodwill, and Endurance
In the beginning was love, and love was with God, and love was God.
— Kamand Kojouri
Don't build your dreams on the opinions of men but on the promises of God
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
A human beings’ perception of reality emanates from viewing the universe, which is in a constant state of creation and destruction. The universe in which we move and work in outlasts human interests, hopes, expectations, and joy, and all forms of aversion, effort, pain, and humiliation. The world outlasts our dreams, love songs, bouts of inanity and anxiety, it outlast regrets, remorse, and shame.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
If you believe, it shall be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The hunger to know is the hope of search.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love rekindles lose hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no water, so things are bad. If there were water, it would be better. But there is no water.
— T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems
There was so much filth to clean up; so many broken pieces to fix; so many errors to correct. Every morning she left her house she let out a quiet sigh, as if in one breath she could will away detritus of the previous day.--Three Daughters of Eve
— Elif Shafak
Hope is more the consequence of action than its cause. As the experience of the spectator favors fatalism, so the experience of the agent produces hope.
— Roberto Mangabeira Unger, The Future of American Progressivism: An Initiative for Political and Economic Reform
Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
God begets love.
— Kamand Kojouri
Weakness drives us to set goals, to try harder, to put forth more effort, to dream and wish and hope, to reach out further and down deeper, to pray earnestly, to cry mightily, to understand and empathize with valid sincerity. In truth, weakness is a catalyst for greater strength.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
It is good to be jealous, if only of yourself. For what you feel you lack, you will show an abundance.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
Money isn't success. Success is the character with which you make it.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
Why couldn't two unhappy people refresh each other on their way through this dusty business of life by a little talk - real, natural talk, about what they felt, what they would have liked, what they still tried to hope for?
— Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April
I'm not singing for the future I'm not dreaming of the past I'm not talking of the fist time I never think about the last
— Shane MacGowan
Don't aim, listen. Don't run, walk. Don't doubt, Move. Your heart will guide you in the right direction.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
The grace by which our world relies, Is man’s ability to do good. But judgment seeks to condemn in our eyes, the times in which we could
— Robert Vanleeuwen
Greatness is not a term of success, but of endurance.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
It seemed that out of every tear of a martyr new confessors were born, and that every groan on the arena found an echo in thousands of breasts. Caesar was swimming in blood, Rome and the whole pagan world was mad. But those who had had enough of transgression and madness, those who were trampled upon, those whose lives were misery and oppression, all the weighed down, all the sad, all the unfortunate, came to hear the wonderful tidings of God, who out of love for men had given Himself to be crucified and redeem their sins.When they found a God whom they could love, they had found that which the society of the time could not give any one, -- happiness and love.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis
We measure time through a mental framework trussed with two major stakes: memory and expectation. Memory is that spottiness that takes place behind the eyes: memory takes place in the cloistered theater that houses diffused still pictures. We file mental pictures that encapsulate our prior life into mental shelves for a wayward librarian to cull through and forward select recollection to the recall center whenever summoned. Expectations arise from thoughtful consideration of our future prospects in life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
When you make mistakes-not IF, Fireheart, WHEN- I'll tell you all about them.
— Cinderpelt
The trick is to learn from your mistakes, and have the courage to be true to your heart.
— Cinderpelt, Warriors: The Darkest Hour
We know The wheel of time moves on New bonds, new ties ignite Moments fleet, memories drift, shadows glide There is always a hope At the horizon we seek.
— Balroop Singh, Sublime Shadows Of Life
I know that the future seems hard and scary, but it will get better, I promise. It's time for you to move on. Get going.
— Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon
Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design will result in the destruction of our lives.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
There are times that all you need is someone who will listen to you without judging you — not telling you what you should have done or should do, but simply, listening to you
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
I die a little everyday, in trying to revive what I lost yesterday!
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
I don't know about homeless, but I'm never going to let you be hopeless. Or loveless. To be heartless however, well, that is your choice to make.
— Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core
Hope is human natural right but they have to keep it.
— Zaman Ali, Humanity
It takes time;It will take time, But it will happen
— Anamika Mishra, VoiceMates - A Novel
I pray for insight where the path is veiled, fortitude where the obstacles appear insurmountable, endurance where the destination seems unattainable, and equanimity when all that remains is to accept the journey.
— James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
Our thoughts and desires are based in hope, but our behaviors are based in fear. This misalignment often causes a feeling of hopelessness and continues the cycle of feeding outdated ideologies and Guru genres offering gimmicks to anesthetize the pain.
— Steve Maraboli
In order to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them.
— Bobby Knight
Purpose in the sufferingA crisis-- the kind that knocks the wind out of ya, the kind that makes your blood run cold and alters your perception of all you think your reality "is." THAT kind of crisis brings us not only to our knees, but smack-dab with every question we've ever pondered on God's existence. There is purpose in the suffering. It MAKES us ask eternal questions with eternal answers. Often that's what it takes to wake us up. The suffering is actually merciful, from a God who would literally do ANYTHING to get us to run into His arms.
— Carrie Lynn Jones (Immel)
The question is not whether our life is purposeful, but whether that purpose leads to a hope which is proper to our nature as human beings, for only then will life be meaningful.
— James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
I hope all you wish for comes to you,And you become who you're hoping to be.I know you will prosper in all you do,So promise you'll remember me.
— Margo T. Rose, The Words
Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.
— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
In order for evil to go down, the good had to fight, suffer and die. We won, but only after suffering a lot of pain and I’m sure many have had second thoughts. Despite everything, we had new hope after the battle. We cleared the agitation. We were free. The same goes for this war. The good on both sides needs to survive and the bad needs to wither away.
— Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core
We just need to hang in there a little longer, spend a little more of our energy... Breathe...
— Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core
Le ciel était absolument noir, il n'y avait plus d'étoiles, mais évidemment il en voyait une.
— Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs
One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.
— T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion
There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.
— Ellis Peters
The people who had been recognized for making original contributions shared many more stories that started negatively but surged upward: they struggled early and triumphed later. Despite being confronted with more negative events, they reported greater satisfaction with their lives and a stronger sense of purpose.
— Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
So I'm biding my time, like a surfer waiting for a wave. I'm pretty good at surfing, as it happens, and I know the wave will come. When the moment is right, I'll get Demeter's attention. She'll look at my stuff, everything will click, and I'll start riding my life. Not paddling, paddling, paddling, like I am right now.
— Sophie Kinsella, My Not So Perfect Life
Love makes you do,the best of things.Love makes you do, the worst of things,It's a feeling extreme,that doesn't exist in between.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning—We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love.
— Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
Love rekindles lose hope
— Lailah Gifty Akita
And Athos had. He’d broken Holland one bone, one day, one order at a time. Until all Holland wanted, more than the ability to save his world, more than the strength to bring the magic back, more than anything, was for it to end.It was cowardice, he knew, but cowardice came so much easier than hope.
— V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light
It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear.
— Francesco Guicciardini
May 27, 1941Sunday we encountered specimens of the rarely appearing yellow lady's slipper. This orchis is fragilely beautiful. One tends to think of it almost as a phenomenon, without any roots or place in the natural world. And yet it, too, has had its tough old ancestors which have eluded fires and drought and freezes to pass on in this lovely form the boon of existence. If a plant so delicately lovely can at the same time be so toughly persistent and resistant to all natural enemies, can we doubt that hopes for a better an more rational world may not also withstand all assaults, be bequeathed from generation to generation, and come ultimately to flower?President Roosevelt says he has not lost faith in democracy; nor have I lost faith in the transcendent potentialities of LIFE itself. One has but to look about him to become almost wildly imbued with something of the massive, surging vitality of the earth.
— Harvey Broome, Out Under Sky Of Great Smokies: A Personal Journal
Hope may inspire and inveigle us, but we cannot just live on hope. Certainly, love can be hope, but it is merely a contingency, since it might either mend our life or break our heart. ("Waiting for the smoke signals")
— Erik Pevernagie
A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.
— Jeffrey Fry
And I pray that you no longer seek happiness from the past, but rather you set your sails forward, to a land that is pure and wonderful. I pray that you no longer stare into the shallows of empty promises, but that you dive into the depth of an ocean of guarantees. May you feel the winds of hope, and smell the scent of joy, may your heart be alive again as it was meant to be. For you are with a better captain, you are with a true sailor, a true leader; You are sailing with Christ, and He is always sure to lead us home.
— T.B. LaBerge
W“e’ve taken our love of crows and glitter to the point of no return. Our best advice is don’t get caught up in the details… just enjoy the over-the-top romance.
— Alexa Riley, His Princess
STARS AND DANDELIONSDeep in the blue sky,like pebbles at the bottom of the sea,lie the stars unseen in daylightuntil night comes. You can't see them, but they are there. Unseen things are still there.The withered, seedless dandelionshidden in the cracks of the roof tilewait silently for spring,their strong roots unseen. You can't see them, but they are there. Unseen things are still there.
— Misuzu Kaneko, Are You an Echo?: The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko
Imagination belongs to hope. It’s the creative dance of possibility.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Hope is a helium balloon. It is a wish lantern set out into the dark sky of night.
— Sharon Weil
Hope dreams into being what is possible but not yet formed.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Winners gather together to fuel hope
—  losers gossip together to fuel hate.
You know what they say about hope, it breeds eternal misery
— Spencer Hastings
If I’m going to have hope, I’m going to have to learn to endure disappointment.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He felt whole, self-sufficient, felt his life had at last opened up and that now nothing stood between him and the future's infinite possibilities.
— Leonard Gardner, Fat City
There is a brightness on her face and she keeps urging me on with tilts of her head and smiles and I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
— Patrick Ness
She could now be sad without losing a jot of hope. Nay, rather, the least approach of sadness would begin at once to wake her hope. She regretted nothing that had come, nothing that had gone. She believed more and more that not anything worth having is ever lost; that even the most evanescent shades of feeling are safe for those who grow after their true nature, toward that for which they were made—in other and higher words, after the will of God.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Christ in me is the hope of glory
— Sunday Adelaja
Hope of God is fulfilled when the kingdom of God extends to all the earth
— Sunday Adelaja
Confidence and hope builds up in you when you have a glimpse of what your future is like
— Sunday Adelaja
That’s the hope, isn’t it? To see your family in your time of dying.
— Saim .A. Cheeda
A wish is a single unit of hope. It’s a single request for something I dearly desire.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Instead of us to rely on the strength and ability God has given us we hope for favor and help from God and people then do nothing.
— Sunday Adelaja
Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Embrace the pain
— Jude Gibbs, Gifts from the Ashes: Hope in Jesus for Bereaved Parents
Don't be afraid that things are changing, because indeed they always are.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Hope is heaven.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Per qualche motivo anche solo assistere mi aveva fatto venir voglia di uccidere qualunque parte di me provasse del desiderio. Qualunque parte di me stesse ancora aspettando qualcosa da qualcuno, speranzosa.
— Merritt Tierce, Love Me Back
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
We cannot hope to change a nation without facing trials and persecution in the process
— Sunday Adelaja
Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic.
— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
The thing is, there is no certainty in this life - in one second your entire world could shift. I'm not saying it will, but I am living proof that It can. We never prepare for tragedy and that's a good thing but my god what's it's taught me is how little we appreciate what we have or some cases once had.
— Nikki Rowe
Some stories won't have a happy ending, but there's always hope that the next one will. Hope is everything. Even when there's nothing else. Especially when there's nothing else.
— Clara Kensie, Aftermath
Stories exist to entertain and inspire us. They’re merely veils of hope for when we see the ugliness of the world.
— Felix Alexander, The Last Valentine
What could you possibly hope to find in a cemetary?" The women said. "The dead tell no secrets and the living seldom come to visit them.
— Felix Alexander, The Last Valentine
But in the midst of this decaying, burning city, there are pockets of hope. It can be found in the tiny dark rooms in underground bars, where women with short hair cheer on men in dresses. It can be felt in abandoned cinemas where anonymous strangers fall in love if only for a few moments, and in the living rooms where families crowd around, drinking sweet black tea and Skyping their homesick relatives so that together they can watch the long, rambling talk shows that go on all night.
— Saleem Haddad
Somewhere, excitement waited for me like an uncut cake.
— Lauren Wolk, Wolf Hollow
If we can’t feel into the heart of grief, we can’t truly move on to experience hope and joy. We can’t be present to what is now, and what is next, because we are bound by the loss and sorrow that holds us to the past. Grief has to flow. It has to be carried, not just by you, but by the others with you, by your community, until it transforms to the next rightful calling of your heart to action.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Faith is a flame of fire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Dad thinks I'm ready to fly around the country as the Ambassador of Hope, but Mom thinks I'm a frail little bird with broken wings.
— Clara Kensie, Aftermath
Hope is like sunshine, which is still there, shielded by cloudsHope is that light, which beckons to brighten our daysThe breezy buoyancy of hope stirs us to hold handsThe darkest of clouds disintegrate, says Mother Nature.
— Balroop Singh
...there's nothing wrong with being a little hopeful. Who says you can't warm your frozen limbs in the faint heat of a flicker of hope?
— Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake
Hope is made of air, and wishes. An empty box wrapped in shiny paper.And now Dad wants me to be the ambassador of hope for his foundation. How can I be the ambassador of hope, when hope doesn't change anything? When unrealized hopes only bring pain and despair?
— Clara Kensie, Aftermath
With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.
— - French proverb, Anonymous
Hope is made of air, and wishes. An empty box wrapped in shiny paper.
— Clara Kensie, Aftermath
My father is using me as a message of hope. My sister is using me as a message of fear.I don't want to be used by anybody.
— Clara Kensie, Aftermath
All night the angelic made me gasp for breadth and dream of drowning in sand or earth or mud. I got up, my chest still racked, but glad to be finished with the phantasms which magnify a reality difficult enough in itself. Coffee so bitter it was undrinkable. A big roar. Two big roars. No relief. The mornings only consolation was of a faecal nature. Unexpectedly and impeccably i produced a magnificent turd, so long it had to curve at the ends to fit into the bowl. I contemplated fondly the fine chubby little babe of living clay i'd just brought forth, and my zest for life returned.
— Michel Tournier, The Ogre
Fierce faith, hopeful heart
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not focus on the broken pieces, focus on the whole picture
— Manuel Corazzari
Unstrained, I sit and gaze, glare, survey, starethrough barred windows encased in embroidered steel. Pearly frosted dust obstructs the channels of light, leaving only small pillars of fire, arranged in disordered fragments. The antiquated sallow walls are stained with crimson braids that wreathe and scuttle about the rimes and rifts.
— Craig Froman, An Owl on the Moon: A Journal from the Edge of Darkness
There must be logical minds among all species if they hope to survive. Not everyone can be bridled with hope and optimism.
— Kayla Krantz, The Council
The church is God’s elect that God wants to raise in the country to give hope to everyone
— Sunday Adelaja
Christians are the hope of any country
— Sunday Adelaja
Hope can be the strongest if you believe it to be.
— Callie L.
I'll tell you what God did do. He sent Jesus to die on the cross so you could be saved. To forgive your sins. That doesn't sound like condemnation
—  that sounds like hope.
Focus on miracles or breakthrough makes a man to hope that he could reap where he has not sown.
— Sunday Adelaja
Only with a relationship with God, can you become light and hope for your country and the whole world
— Sunday Adelaja
There are some of you here today who feel like dead people. It is as if you are already six feet under, staring up at the top of your own locked coffin. This morning Jesus wants to set you free. You simply have to let go of the key and pass it through the little hole, where you see a tiny shaft of light.
— Sheila Walsh, Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free
Without hope, I wouldn’t even try. Hope lifts me to consider new possibilities so I can stay the course of my desire, no matter what.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
I thank God every day for this life, and I want there to be more, though that’s not known. What is known is that I’m alive today, this minute. And that’s pretty much what we all have – this day, this moment.
— Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...
We all die. Not all of us live.
— Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...
Harmony is our natural state of being, and so, when our energies become too stagnant, chaos is thrown into the mix to stimulate what will eventually result in balance and invite flow. The trick is to not let chaos trap or define you… simply allow it to create movement in the vehicle of your life so that you can snap your eyes open and take back control of the wheel. Do not lose yourself in the storm, instead, be the calm in the storm.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
If I’ve learned anything from facing death, it is that life is not meant to be survived. Life is the greatest adventure there is. And why stop your adventuring when someone says the end may be near? The truth is, we never know when the end will actually come. None of us will avoid it forever. What’s the point in trying? Live fearlessly!
— Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...
Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.
— Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You
Don't be afraid of the space between what has been and can be. Simply spend a quiet moment to wrap and warm yourself within your own arms . . . then step forward. There is a door just ahead, opening into the light of a new time."​- From Letters for Grace
— Jane Nicolet, Letters for Grace: One Mother's Journey
A long walk is a slow remembering of how profound and wonderful life is
—  God is everywhere and in everything. Wherever I look I am looking at God.
I am fighting to stay alive not because I fear death, but because I love life.
— Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...
Acceptance of death and cancer did not mean I intended to give up, just the opposite. I was prepared to fight cancer not out of fear of dying, but out of joy of living.
— Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...
Through the Grace of God and His medicine I am healed.” The prayer was accompanied by a vision straight out of Braveheart, a line of Scottish Highland warriors in kilts with huge shields and long spears marching in brave unison and attacking and killing the cancer. They were advancing, towards the cancer, striking and killing it with strong accurate thrusts from their sharp spears. The vision was so strong I could hear marching feet, and visibly see the cancer in me dying. “Through the Grace of God and His medicine I am healed,” became my constant prayer. The prayer awakened with me each day, coming on the wings of the morning. It followed in my heart through the day, and was on my lips as I drifted to sleep at night.
— Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...
When I put down Lance Armstrong’s book, I understood something profoundly. Edie, if you can move, you’re not sick. I decided right then and there that no matter what cancer did to me I would continue to move. Movement was what the physical body was designed to do; it was how it coped and functioned. Movement was vitality. It was life.I would move. Always. No matter what. Until my last breath, I would move.
— Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...
When I put down Lance Armstrong’s book, I understood something profoundly. Edie, if you can move, you’re not sick. I decided right then and there that no matter what cancer did to me I would continue to move. Movement was what the physical body was designed to do; it was how it coped and functioned. Movement was vitality. It was life. I would move. Always. No matter what. Until my last breath, I would move.
— Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...
I started to walk the day I was told I was dying of cancer. I believe walking has kept me alive. I live with a constant, pressing awareness of death. Once I start to walk, I am not afraid anymore; all is well.
— Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...
Hatred doesn’t need company. It stews in its own loneliness and can grow still. Love needs companions. Love alone is daunted. Love together is unbound and unrestricted.
— Kyle Schmalenberg
Wait in expectant of the desired wishes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I came to realize we are held in the arms of God and are utterly completely safe - in life and in death
—  whether walking alone or with others.
When you are up in life your friends get to know who you are. When you are down in life you get to know who your friends are.#minoradjustments101
— Michael L. Williams Jr., I'm a Believer: I Am What I Am
Carl Schmitt could boast with some justice that the Nazi revolution was orderly and disciplined. But the reason lies not so much within the Nazis themselves as in the lack of an effective opposition. For millions the Nazi ideology did assuage their anxiety, did end their alienation, and did give hope for a better future. Other millions watched passively, not deeply committed to resistance. "Let them have a chance" was a typical attitude. Hitler took the chance and made the most of it.
— George L. Mosse, Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Life in the Third Reich
But I promise you, you guys can do it. In four days you'll be the happiest person Earth has ever seen. You'll stand by the ocean and feel the salty sea spray tingling in your nose. You'll be with people you know and love, and you'all appreciate how beautiful everything is. You'll se cars behind you in your rear view mirror, and maybe you'll laugh at the driver's faces. Because they'll look annoyed, bored, angry. And you'll realize what they're missing. You'll live a long and happy life, Mia. Because when you get home, you'll realize that anything is possible. You mustn't ever forget that.
— Johan Harstad, 172 Hours on the Moon
I walk to rid myself of the terror of cancer, and to overcome the fear of it coming back. The fear may never completely fade, but actively engaging life – whatever that may involve – reminds me of the joy each day can bring.
— Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...
Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only ‘find’ these things, we will never sense any compulsion to ‘find’ God.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Your happiness is a beacon of light in my life. Although you may not realize so now, your bright disposition will smooth many paths ahead for you. Whatever happens—don’t ever let that light go out.
— Jayne Castel, The Whispering Wind
Hope is faith of a glad heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The hope of hardships!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never give up, the hope of living.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Without hardships, how could we find hope?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With hope in your heart, endure the hardship.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We can escape any hardship with hope in our heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Loss of hope is root of distress.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I love to walk. Walking is a spiritual journey and a reflection of living. Each of us must determine which path to take and how far to walk; we must find our own way, what is right for one may not be for another. There is no single right way to deal with late stage cancer, to live life or approach death, or to walk an old mission trail.
— Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...
Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
[W]hen something terrible happens, all we have left is choice. You can fill that awful void inside you with anger, or you can fill it with love for the ones who remain beside you, with hope for the future.
— Wendy Mills, All We Have Left
Don't let past mistakes make you lose hope of achieving good. Some of those with the worst past have made a great future for themselves.
— Mufti Ismail Menk, Motivational Moments by Mufti Menk
Glimpse is a meeting of dreamers in the silent night sky.
— W.D. Tuck, Glimpse
There is so much sttuborn hope in a human heart.
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
There is do much sttuborn hope in a human heart.
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Even when everything hurts, even when other cities are exploding and people we love are disappearing, there’s still space for sweet things.
— Corey Ann Haydu, The Careful Undressing of Love
I’m sorry it’s had to be this hard. But if I hadn’t walked this path, who would I be? At the moment I felt at the center of my life, the dream still braided like sweetgrass in my memory. I remembered Duffy’s challenge. Imagine a world worth living in, a world worth fighting for. I closed my eyes and allowed my hopes to soar. I heard the beatings of wings nearby. I opened my eyes. A young man on a nearby rooftop released his pigeons, like dreams, into the dawn.
— Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues
what once cause catastrophe in my life has now become the catalyst for my direction.
— Nikki Rowe
Everything has its opposite within it.Love can be very destructive if you mishandle it.Pain can help you find ways to grow and change.Fear can eventually lead you to a path of hope.
— Jay Woodman
We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of the Almighty God are embodied in our echoing demands. So however difficult it is during this period, however difficult it is to continue to live with the agony and the continued existence of racism, however difficult it is to live amidst the constant hurt, the constant insult and the constant disrespect, I can still sing we shall overcome. We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.We shall overcome because Carlisle is right. "No lie can live forever." We shall overcome because William Cullen Bryant is right. "Truth crushed to earth will rise again." We shall overcome because James Russell Lowell is right. "Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne."   Yet that scaffold sways the future. We shall overcome because the Bible is right.  "You shall reap what you sow." With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to speed up the day when all of God's children all over this nation - black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual, "Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank God Almighty, We are Free At Last.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Because you do it out of passion, as well as hoping it will bring better opportunity. It's like you're investing in yourself, so although you don't see anything up front there's always the possibility that the kind of compensation that is priceless can come later. For someone who's striving to get where they're meant to be, opportunity over a quick buck is something that will always be taken by the wise. Because they know opportunity is king, and all other benefits will follow...
— Rico Lamoureux, Power Of The Pen
...nothing helps a lie float like a hopeful listener.
— Joshilyn Jackson, The Opposite of Everyone
Liza with her acceptance could take care of tragedy
—  she had no real hope this side of Heaven.
Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.
— Chinese Proverb
I’m not saying we’ll live to see some sort of paradise. But just fighting for change makes you stronger. Not hoping for anything will kill you for sure. Take a chance, Jess. You’re already wondering if the world could change. Try imagining a world worth living in, and then ask yourself if that isn’t worth fighting for. You’ve come too far to give up on hope, Jess.
— Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues
Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.
— D.S. Mixell
Hope makes a gladden heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My hope is in God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I sometimes find myself sitting here not watching an uninteresting movie and contemplating the future. I don't always know what to do, but I have faith that I'll figure it out somehow.
— D.S. Mixell
There is only one way of salvation. Men are sinful rebels against God, by nature, enemies of holiness and He who is holy. Dominated by sin, ruled over by evil, we are helpless to even drag ourselves toward the true and holy God, even if we wanted to! We are dead in sin. "But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love which he loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ" (Ephesians 2:4-5). The Father, in His infinite mercy and grace, saved us in Christ Jesus.
— James R. White, Drawn By The Father: A Study Of John 6:35 45
The Christian has been drawn unto Christ. Those who wish to boast in having something to do with their salvation, or who insist that the final decision lays with man, resist the clear meaning of Christ's words, "draw." But this is a wondrous term. It is beautiful to hear. Drawn in love. Drawn in mercy. Drawn unto the one who died in my place. It is sovereign action, undertaken by the one who holds the entire universe by His power. It is an irresistible drawing, most definitely, but is a drawing of grace. The one drawing loves the one who is being drawn. And those drawn can never be thankful enough to God who brought them out of darkness into the marvelous light of Christ.
— James R. White
Hope is expectant longing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With patient hope, we can endure any hardship.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope means hang on.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is fruitfulness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The most important individuals on earth have went underground, either for political, social or personal reasons. Ostracized by a society that ignores their most basic rights, they work alone to save the world. Invisible to the five senses, they work from the most unbelievable places, places where they're hardly found, or when found never recognized. I change country at an average of three to six times a year, and travel to places as unpredictable as Lithuania, Julian Assange is in the Equator's Embassy in England, David Icke lives in a tiny apartment in a Island that few have heard about, and then there are many others that you've never seen or met. Without us, there would be no meaning for hope. We may one day be found and recognized, maybe even get statues and other works of art in our name and that will likely happen after we're gone. So we can't say we're doing it for the money or recognition. We're risking our lives for those that show no appreciation or support, for those that rather spend 10 dollars in a meal than two in a book, for those that to a great extent have ridicule us for a longer time than the one in which they've shown respect.
— Robin Sacredfire
Don't worry mother, it'll be alrightAnd don't worry sister, say your prayers and sleep rightIt'll be fine lover of mineIt'll be just fineLend your voices only to sounds of freedomNo longer lend you strength to that which you wish to be free fromFill your lives with love and braveryAnd you shall lead a live uncommon
— Jewel, Jewel Spirit
Her power was a wrenching thing, starless black and sorrow, but my magic was something more...it was hope.
— Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen
My fear of endings too often blocks my hope of beginnings.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I do have hope. Nature is enormously resilient, humans are vastly intelligent, the energy and enthusiasm that can be kindled among young people seems without limit, and he human spirit is indomitable. But if we want life, we will have to stop depending on someone else to save the world. It is up to us-you and me, all of us. Myself, I have placed my faith in the children.
— Jane Goodall
Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply too small.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
As the last curtain falls on a spent year, a new year pirouettes to center stage with the elegance and charm of a prima ballerina – and delivers the promise of peace, hope, love and joy.
— Peggy Toney Horton
I have this one little life to live with, it's not the plan I had in mind but I can accept its the calling of my soul. The irony in gaining freedom through the heartbreak of stillness.
— Nikki Rowe