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My soul already existed - you just called out to me, and the wind brought me to you.
— R.M. Romero, The Dollmaker of Krakow
God is more than able to meet our every need.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Even if it's meaningless . . . sometimes, nice things happen.
— Tsukumizu, Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 1
You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his kneesExcerpt from To Kiss a King by Grace WillowsComing this summer to Amazon Kindle and paperback.
— Grace Willows, To  Kiss a King
If we get separated there’s not much hope of us ever meeting anywhere, but I need to keep up the pretense of hope because that may be all we have.
— Susan Ee, Angelfall
You can blow into a balloon and watch it inflate, and then release it and see it deflate. You can take that same balloon and blow into it again, and observe it inflating. That's what my heart is doing in this moment, inflating and holding the air.
— Candace Robinson, Hearts Are Like Balloons
Trap. Horrible trap. At one’s birth it is sprung. Some last day must arrive. When you will need to get out of this body. Bad enough. Then we bring a baby here. The terms of the trap are compounded. That baby also must depart. All pleasures should be tainted by that knowledge. But hopeful dear us, we forget. Lord, what is this?
— George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
After all of this you're still 'Rayhan the Chivalrous', full of hope and optimism?
— Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry's Code
Though the fire and water tried to overtake me, I have come out to a place of great abundance and God has given me hope again.
— Robin Bertram, No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever
Express your feelings on paper when stress is getting on top of you. Learn to exorcise the negative impact of stressful thinking.
— Dee Waldeck
My favorite words in the world are these:  in conjunction.They question curiosities in simple form and function. is a query of broadest scope. is wonder that fuels all hope.Together they lasso the mind like rope, and spur the wildest deductions!
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
You can recover from any injury.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What I want is only a wish.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you can believe, you be made well.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faithless is unbelieving heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No matter how bad the situation, do not lose heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hang on to hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Believe, believe.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
They were together, and that was all that mattered. The food, the house, the cars, the money, the power, all inconsequential. She would tear it all down herself with her bare hands if she had to, because her family was alive, well, and surrounding her in love. It was how it should have been that night, and it was the last thing Abigail thought or saw in her minds eye as she faded off into the oblivion and unknown of death.
— Stephen  Vaughn, M.I.N.D.
While we must always strive to grow beyond those who come before us, we must revere and learn from those that broke the ground originally, endeavor to honor their legacy, and then continue in our own vision.
— Alexandra Silber
Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Do not lose heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Lose of hope leads to discouragement.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I want to live. Doesn't everyone feel the same way?
— Yua Kotegawa, Line
Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Disciples of Fortune
I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hope.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson, Midnight at the Electric
So what do we do?" Alec whispered.Magnus shrugged and smiled suddenly; with his messy black hair and the gleam in his gold-green eyes, he looked like a mischievous teenager. "what everyone else does," he replied. "Like you said. Hope.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
Real affection does not see anything in terms of 'rights', nor does it even care if it is reciprocated. It merely waits by the door and hopes."From 'A Walking Shadow
— E.M. Swift-Hook
If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel the joy, passion, and happiness that living fully and loving deeply bring.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
I see your painas clearly as I feel my own.I will share your burden so you feel it less.Do not hate this world.Do not hate these people.I will share my hopeso you feel it more.I want you to see our loveas clearly as I feel yours.
— Kamand Kojouri
If you are alive, don’t ever lose hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Hope is a fine killing thing.
— Kirryn Lia Todd, Bruised Opulence
You are the future that will never become my past.
— Luna Marym
Remember: Rain doesn't need watering.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.She would make it light enough to float away.She reached over to open the window. To float to her daughter.
— Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Do not lose heart nor hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not give up hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No matter what happens to us, as long as we have hope, we shall recover.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Is there any hope for the dead?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We perish, when we lose hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Without hope, we are lifeless.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope is a joy of heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your hope shall be your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Give into hope, I say, for fear will only paralyze. It is better to life a life of love amidst the pain than a life of apathy.
— Stacy A. Padula
Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us.Meese encouraged me by reminding me of the real reason we have for fully living this life. It's to give everything we have to God--even the heartbreaks and pain. God is our reason to live.
— Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Ao sairmos para o anoitecer dourado das ruas bizantinas, refleti como era estranho que, mesmo sob as circunstâncias mais extraordinárias, durante episódios mais perturbadores da vida, nos lugares mais distantes de casa e de tudo que nos é familiar, possam existir esses momentos de incontestável alegria.
— Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
Experience everything;Times of sorrow, times of Joy.Times of darkness, times of light.Times of lost heart, times of hope.Times of hate, times of love.Times of pain , times of peace.Times of distress, times of dancing.Times of sickness, times of recover of strength.Times of lost, times of finding the way.Times of wandering, times of wonder.Times of failure, times of success.Times of fall, times of rise.Time of sowing, times of harvesting.Times of injury , times of healing.Times of waiting, times of fulfilled wish.Times of praying, times of receiving the promise.Times of ploughing, times of planting.Times of dreaming, times of working to achieve the dream.Times of doubt, times of Faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
As long as you have hope, you can survive any harsh condition.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My heartbeat shall be hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Is the any certainty like Faith?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She had hoped. And hope broke more hearts than any man ever could.
— Cora Carmack, Roar
Love is a powerful force. There is nothing in this world, no other energy, as powerful as the force of genuine, unconditional love.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.
— Shannon  Mullen, See What Flowers
Sometimes hope is like wearing someone else’s coat. You know it can shield and protect you, just as it did them, but it still doesn’t feel right. You’re just not used to it.
— Karina Halle, Before I Ever Met You
May you know always that you are never alone, that life and love are eternal, and that you are extraordinary.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
I have been blessed by those I cannot see, but whose presence I feel. I know that I am not alone and hope that you, too, will find that, even in the most difficult situations, you are fully supported by the universe. All that is required is that you ask for help. It is there waiting for you.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
There is an old phrase, ‘hiding in plain sight.’ This is where we find the loved one we miss so much. All we need to do is open our eyes, our minds, and our hearts.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
Just please understand that everyone is going through a rough time as well. Even if they are hiding behind money or a simple smile. We are all continuously stumbling as we go about our lives. If we had perfect lives we'd all be perfect people. Only thing we can learn to do is endure or we will not be happy and happiness is the closest thing to perfect.
— Hyrum Yeakley
Hope comes in the form of synchronicities. When one even occurs and is followed by another, which is in complete alignment with the first, we sense we are not alone. We know, intuitively throughout our beings, that what we are experiencing is the universe lovingly embracing us.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible!
— George Chakiris
I became convinced that I was being watched.Because self was still leaking everywhere, a part of me began to think it was Mizuko rather than a stranger. I hoped that there might still be a reunion. I hoped it in the shy, sly way hope comes out of the jar, the mistranslated box, last—after everything and everyone else has escaped.
— Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
Dreams bring hope in life, hope brings dreams alive.
— Elijah Onyenmeriogu
Right now I may not have it all, but I know my future is bright because as long as I live there is hope for my situation.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Give yourself permission to see and feel the extraordinary events in your own life. In internalizing them, you also will find your perspective about life and its meaning will change, resulting in growth and expansion of your soul.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
Loss pushes us to difficult places where we have not been before. We often question whether or not we have the courage and stamina to survive the pain. However, we often are given gifts that tell us that we are not alone and that we can withstand the journey.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source; we become Master of the Self. A gradual process, this is often tied to loss and to love.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
What is hope? Like love, it is hard to define, but easy to recognize, a state of being that compels us to go on. It is a feeling that we have what we need to continue our journey to the next moment.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
We all need hope. As souls, we journey in physical bodies, traversing a life that is dually lived. We experience safety through attachment to the physical world, but we also are comforted and cared for by a trust in the non-physical, spiritual part of our reality. Two different roads, available for us and from which we choose, moment by moment.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
Hope, belief, and despair are not simply moods. They change our physical performance. They alter how quickly we react, how hard we fight, how quick we are to give up.- Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
— M.T. Anderson
When we understand the illusory nature of life and the profound power of eternal love, which enables us to create miracles and experience the presence of our deceased loved ones, we find ourselves living with joy, hope and peace.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
Filling ourselves and living with the energy of love feels wonderful. And because this energy resonates at a high vibrational level, it also attracts into our lives other high, vibrational experiences, many of which feel quite miraculous.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
I never thought of a future without you. That was the reason I always lived in the present, hoping I would find you someday.
— Sapan Saxena, Unns-The Captivation
You have the freedom and the ability to decide what to do with your life, and that includes learning how to welcome happiness again. It's a conscious choice we each have to make, to emerge from the embers of profound loss and hopelessness, to become the fire that warms us, lights our path, all of it. We can embody that warmth and light.
— Becca Vry, Musings: An Argyle Empire Anthology
Selfish little flower dancing beneath flames do you dare drift in this wind alongside me? Take my hand and let us see skies untouched by night. You are not alone. Never have, and never will be. Death is only the beginning, but our breath shall reign forever.
— H.S. Crow
Hope because the universe hears you.Hope because the universe works for you.Hope because the universe speaks to you.Hope because the universe will finish what it began in you.
— Drishti Bablani, Wordions
Some situations are just like bad dreams, they're only unbearable while we're giving them our full attention.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Each day is always breaking out anew Aspirations swirling round what you do
— Richard L.  Ratliff
The love we have can’t die. If you ever think I’m not there, just be still and you’ll feel my presence. I’ll be beating with your heart.
— Kyan Christopher, Still Presence
But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again.
— Anaïs Nin
You only confuse hope with power once in life.
— Abby Fabiaschi, I Liked My Life
Suppression or Invalidation of any innate expression of who or what I am is a crime against myself.
— Jean-Jacques Dalpe
Bush invited his constituency to be blind to the world's real problems, and leftists often do the opposite, gazing so fixedly at those problems that they cannot see beyond them. Thus it is that the world often seems divided between false hope and gratuitous despair. Despair demands less of us, it's more predictable, and in a sad way safer. Authentic hope requires clarity--seeing the troubles in this world--and imagination, seeing what might lie beyond these situations that are perhaps not inevitable and immutable.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
I’d rather not know what lies ahead because I like the dark. I like thinking there is something good in the places I can’t see. And that’s not ignorance. That’s just hope.
— Caroline George, The Vestige
To say that the emperor has no clothes is a nice anti-authoritarian gesture, but to say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inverted version of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
His Presbyterian minster father had believed in a divine design, and Mozasu believed that life was like this game where the player could adjust the dials yet also expect the uncertainty of factors he couldn't control. He understood why his customers wanted to play something that looked fixed but which also left room for randomness and hope.
— Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
Regret is the strongest anchor that latches on to the ground, and you carry it within you, it is a feeling quite unlike others for it is despair mingled with hope.
— Saim .A. Cheeda
Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before that way is found or followed.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Your spouse is not a possession you attain, but a friend in which you trust & adore.
— Robert Vanleeuwen, Among Wolves'
There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the true heirs of the Puritans. Puritanical in that the point becomes the demonstration of one's own virtue rather than the realization of results. And puritanical because the somber pleasure of condemning things is the most enduring part of that legacy, along with the sense of personal superiority that comes from pleasure denied. The bleakness of the world is required as contrasting backdrop to the drama of their rising above.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.
— Robert Jordan, Towers of Midnight
Not a world I can give, but a peek of what my world looks like when you're in it.
— J.M. Arboleda
Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal...
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that austere at one end, in the deprivation it endorses, and fantastical in the other, since it awaits a universal utopia. Joy sneaks in anyway, abundance cascades forth uninvited...Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
if you are suffering without a belief in God, then there is not a lot of hope that your pain has any greater purpose in the grand scheme of the universe. Suffering is just a part of naturalistic evolution weeding you out of existence for something stronger and younger to take your place on the food chain.
— Jon Morrison, Clear Minds & Dirty Feet: A Reason to Hope, a Message to Share
The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual and subtle, some dramatic and conflict-ridden--which is to say that revolution doesn't necessarily look like revolution.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
My wishing star glowed slightly and winked back at me. I could almost hear its voice, tinkling like wind chimes and church bells, reassuring me that everything would return to normal.
— Erica Sehyun Song, Thorns in the Shadow
Violence is the power of the state
—  imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.
When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
That thing you thought you'd doYou start to think you can't;You always say tomorrow,But you haven't got a plan.Everyone's asking questions,And all you do is dodge.That career that you'd imaginedWas only a mirage.The older that you get,The smaller that you feel;You forget what's only in your head,And what is really real.Sometimes people make it;They become who they meant to be.But most of the time,Dreamers only dream.
— Margo T. Rose, The Words
How can the heart and mind work together? The mind wants logic and to travel in straight lines, while the heart wants to be free and travel upward in spirals to dizzying heights.
— Gillian Duce, Demons and Dangers: Magic and Mayhem - Book 4
Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)
— Carolina De Robertis, Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you have already succeeded. That is to say, if your activism is already democratic, peaceful, creative, then in one small corner of the world these things have triumphed. Activism, in this model, is not only a toolbox to change things but a home in which to take up residence and live according to your beliefs, even if it's a temporary and local place...
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
If I have more than one life, I would definitelydedicate this one entirely to you." - MAGNETIC REVERIE
— Nico J. Genes
Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers.
— K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
Hope is a beautiful and magical thing. Grasp it tight, monsieur, and never let go.
— Rachel L. Demeter, Beauty of the Beast
I'm still looking for someoneWho said they were here for me,And I thought I was once there for you.But when troubles are nearer than friends,And the road comes to an end,What could I do?I wish I could fly away like you.
— Margo T. Rose, The Words
For once a hope was realized. I held in my hand a morsel of real solid joy: not a dream, not an image of the brain, not one of those shadowy chances imagination pictures, and on which humanity starves but cannot live
— Charlotte Brontë, Villette
I believe that life is full of tragedy. Some lives more than others. But I also believe that comfort can be found with the people that love you . . . if you're willing to let them give it.
— Eliza Maxwell, The Grave Tender
Wherever you are and whatever you do, I hope you find the time to dwell in your favourite memories. It is one of the most beautiful and relaxing things we can do, no matter when and no matter where.
— James Andrew Crosby
And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
— Neil Gaiman, Fables and Reflections
One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.
— Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Hope is only the love of life.
— Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
No matter how bleak and black her existence became, the familiar sight of the moon restored something within her, small as it was—like tiny fluttering wings of flame beating back the darkness.
— Shona Moyce, Immisceo Taken
It was more real than anything she’d ever imagined, and she clung to that in the same way that the sky clung to the earth.
— Shona Moyce, Immisceo Taken
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
— Ernest Hemingway
The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary life the difference between throwing something in the trash and publishing it was imperceptible...
— Rebecca Solnit
I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the establishment of good...
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were astonished every day.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way to save face. It's also a way to forget the power of a story and of a storyteller, the power in the margins, and the potential for change.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they only ratify change. They are almost never where change begins, only where it ends up, for most changes travel from the edges to the center.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.
— Germany Kent
today my heart was ripped in twoone half for me, one half for you take a half and keep it neari have mine and will always be here crossing paths before the endonce a lover, forever a friend
— Connor Franta, Note to Self
If you're reading this, I hope God opens incredible doors for your life this year. Greatness is upon you. You must believe it though.
— Germany Kent
No matter how dysfunctional your background, how broke or broken you are, where you are today, or what anyone else says, YOU MATTER, and your life matters!
— Germany Kent
Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward.
— Germany Kent
The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Some were filled with pride. Some were filled with hope. Some were filled rage. But all of them screamed
— Hajime Isayama, 進撃の巨人 18 [Shingeki no Kyojin 18]
A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.
— Oprah Winfrey
A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation, increases awareness, boosts self-confidence, and offers the possibility of hope.
— Germany Kent
You're only as good as your next thought of yourself.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
It was hope that was the problem. Hoping feelings wouldn't be hurt, hoping love would blossom, that was painful. But committing yourself to misery, that was just a dead feeling. It was pulling the Band-Aid and embracing the pain.
— Stephen Emond, Winter Town
You're only as good as you're next thought of yourself.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Speranța e doar în infinitul posibilităților.
— Alexandru Lamba, arhitecții speranței
Dream anything hard enough, and it can be yours.
— George R.R. Martin, Lisa Tuttle
So I care for this restless fluttering in my heart as if it were a bird with a broken wing, in the hope that it will one day heal and fly.
— Hazel Gaynor, The Girl from the Savoy
Imperfections & failure are as much a blessing as our talents & success. Together we must dare to be ourselves so that we may live beyond our wildest dreams
— Robert Vanleeuwen
If your trust is in man, your joy will soon be buried in the cemetery. If you hope is in cars, your happiness will soon be found in the mechanic shop. You are missing it if man is your hope.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Success is deliberate. It doesn’t come as an accident. What you work for is what you achieve. Faith without work is a vain hope.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Even this little moment is a blessing.Life is always full of hope, if you only let it in
— Atle Jarnæs Lerøy
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything
— Thomas Carlyle
No matter how dark life can be, it's how we react to it that matters. Love & forgiveness instead of hate and fear, create in us a garden of healing.
— Kathy Goodhew, A Vision Beyond Abuse: Spiritual Healing After Abuse
Stay hungry on the path you trod to overcome all odds though fate & the gods seem to pepper your plate with a barrage of sabotage.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Never give up hope, no matter how dark things may seem.
— A. T.
We wish
—  we hope. Nothing hardly changes. We take action and more action. Wow! What we envision begins to occur.
Strong is the man who can pull apart his own pride and hopelessness; courageous is the man who then reaches in, near his most vital inner workings to pull out the slivers and shards of mortality that have worked their way in.It’s not about determining the shade of grey the white paint in the bucket has become, but finding where the black paint is dripping from, and stopping it.
— Michael Brent Jones, Dinner Party: Part 2
The value of ones heart is in the reminders of what fills it,words may sustain for a while but actions will always be the hope
— Bluenscottish
When scorching passion only leaves ashes of unfulfilled dreams, hope may entice the sprinkling magic of our imagination into livening up the footlights on a new stage of life. ("Taken for a ride")
— Erik Pevernagie
Dig deep & pull the roots of confidence from the ground of your being, standing firm in the raging storm until sunlight blossoms inside you.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustn’t shirk it. Love, after all, 'hopeth all things.' But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.
— Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
Did I love her? No. I obsessed over her completely. And thank heavens I was obsessed. Obsession, infatuation, is something short-lived. A sweet fever dream that leaves you exhausted from the high. Love is perpetual. Love is an entire world compared to that other form of mania people mistake love for. If love is loving the reality of a person, obsession is idealising the fantasy of another. Did I love her? No. Never. But I was utterly obsessed.
— F.K. Preston, The Artist, The Audience and a Man Called Nothing
Rare indeed is the seed who can bury its nightmares & still stem & blossom into its wildest dreams.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
I wish I could run into the world’s arms. Linger within the spaces between nothing. I wish I could filter out of existence. To live quietly without dying. I wish I could be cherished by life itself. To speak and sing volumes without lying to myself.
— F.K. Preston, The Artist, The Audience and a Man Called Nothing
All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased.
— F.K. Preston, The Artist, The Audience and a Man Called Nothing
A death in reverse is the rewinding of life. I do not die of old age, in a bed surrounded by strangers my loved ones paid to take care of me. I die in reverse. I die falling backinto a younger age. From my forty-five years to twenty-five. To sixteen. When we were in love. To fourteen: when we first met. To five. To one. To the hospital my mother died at from the complications of my existence. A life for a life.
— F.K. Preston
But I can’t control my dreams. I can’t even remember them. For all I know I’m having the time of my life when I sleep, but I just can’t remember. So I’m forced to live in a life I have no control over. A life where I’m either numb to everything or terrified of every thought that crosses my mind. If this is all just a dream, then it sure is a disappointing one.But I still have time to try and control my dreams. I have time to try and make my dreams a reality in this waking life as well. The one bloody thing I have is time. I’ve got to remember that. I still have time. And despite everything, there is something reassuring about that.
— F.K. Preston, The Artist, The Audience and a Man Called Nothing
I recall my life every day. I recall my sins and my acts of purity. I remind myself I was never a religious man. I remind myself that I have been dead for half of forever. I remind myself of nothing. I move along to the next minute. Next day. Next year. The earth doesn’t change so much anymore. It doesn’t change so quickly. With humans, the earth had to keep changing. But you can only replace a dying thing so many times before someone notices. There haven’t been humans for years. Maybe a decade. Maybe more. I find myself loving their absence. The absence of humanity is the absence of violence. I love this peace. But then I remember my bones. My mind and my memories. I remember I’m human. I am the thing I detest. The creature that haunts my steps. It’s my shadow I see watching me. It’s my reflection in the water. I keep remembering. I live in fear. But still, I walk on.
— F.K. Preston
Four years ago the clocks started turning back. I open my eyes and see nothing. I feel nothing below or above me. I feel the absence of things. The absence of my flesh, my bones, my body, my mind. All that is left is awareness. I see nothing but the absence of colour. It’s not a black darkness. It’s simply nothing. The interior of a black hole. I recall news of a black hole lingering along the edges of our solar system. All that time ago. Four years ago. When the clocks started turning back. I hear nothing. Until there is a something. A small thing. A voice. I listen. There are more voices. The sounds are human. How long has it been since I’ve heard a human? The sounds scratch along my now present attention. They carve into my hearing. They are horrid, wretched things. Voices screaming. Growing loud and desperate. How many voices? Billions. This is the birth of our species. We are born screaming. It’s all we know to do. We have screamed for eternity. Within this empty space.
— F.K. Preston
I begin my life. I live again. I meet a young girl called Valeria. She smiles easily. She laughs tender sounds that pull at my heart. I’m too young to be profound but she makes me feel so safe. So cherished. I am thirty years old. I bump into a woman I knew when she was a girl. Valeria looks annoyed to see me. She lives in the future. Where the world is turning. I live within the past. Where the people are trapped and screaming and alone. I live within the past when Valeria and I were in love. She’s waiting for the cab to come, her foot tapping against the sidewalk. Her eyes glancing at her watch every few minutes. I’m eager to reunite our lives through some kind of friendship. I’m so eager to know her again, as she was when she was a child. But Valeria lives within the future. I live within the past. Have the two ever gotten along? Have they ever even met?
— F.K. Preston
There are no humans left. I should not be alone. I can’t help but wonder that. There were so many of us living. But time started growing young four years ago. It isn’t four years anymore. It’s a number I wouldn’t even be able to say. It feels like four years. It’s trapped in my tender memory as four years. It’s been an age. Multiple ages. It’s been lifetimes
—  every single lifetime that used to exist. I remember my mother screaming. I recall the doctors naming me as nurses wiped away her blood and covered her face with white. The end of the play. It’s been so long. Why am I alone?
All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.
— F.K. Preston, The Artist, The Audience and a Man Called Nothing
There is nothing to me but you. I know it’s pathetic but, oh darling, it’s true.
— F.K. Preston, The Artist, The Audience and a Man Called Nothing
I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you’re too busy living.
— F.K. Preston, The Artist, The Audience and a Man Called Nothing
My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.
— F.K. Preston, The Artist, The Audience and a Man Called Nothing
The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It’s the tender understanding that we’re living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there’s quite a bit of wonder in that.
— F.K. Preston, The Artist, The Audience and a Man Called Nothing
The truth is there isn’t anything to me at all. All I know is that I can’t sleep well, I can’t dream well and I’m quite in love with you. That’s all there is to me. My greatest feature is my admiration for you. I know it’s not healthy. Like my insomnia. Like my dreamless nights. You make living alright. My nightmares come when I think of a night without Valeria. That’s when I realise you’re dead. That’s when I remember you’ve been gone for years. That’s when I remember I’m awake. And I wait for this dream called Life to leave me to my peace once and for all and forever.
— F.K. Preston, The Artist, The Audience and a Man Called Nothing
Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate, but it is crafted hard by the hands of God.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate. Rather, it is something crafted hard by the hands of God.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I wanted to give you something that would last forever. Something that would surpass the world, that would still be alive and bright even after you passed away. Something beautiful. For your eyes and smile only. But I never found it. All I could give you is words. Words which were as fleeting as the heartbeats that shook my soul whenever you looked my way.
— F.K. Preston, The Artist, The Audience and a Man Called Nothing
Here’s to the “so-so-ing” it.Here’s to the working since I was 14 in a smoke clouded day. Here’s to saying I could stay until the forms were faxed.Here’s to driving home past dark and dozing off the road.Here’s to no over time.Here’s to the long line to management.Here’s to ALREADY DONE THAT!Here’s to quitting, saying I’m through, saying I can’t compete for your leftover lean cuisine. Here’s to art. Here’s to freedom. Here’s to saying God gave me every penny and knowing it’s true. Here’s to the next 40 years with you.Here’s to the new.— Adrianna Stepiano
— Adrianna Stepiano
The weight of your baggage never stops true love from taking flight.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
o not preoccupy yourself with wants or expectations. The world won't abide by the standards, you set in any case, whether you set them too low or too high. It will break them every time for the simple fact that our true essence has no desire, hope or expectation for anything. It has no selfish inclinations of any kind. Everything, it experiences, is a passing phase, not its real identity.
— Anita B. Sulser PhD, We Are One
I live in one of the best places, bar none, to appreciate the wild natural environment. I also live in one of the most politically difficult places to work on its behalf: Alaska.
— Kate Troll, The Great Unconformity: Reflections on Hope in an Imperiled World
I will wait for you until the gold from the sun dwindles away.
— H.S. Crow, Lunora and the Monster King
Long ago, there was a dream within a dream that allowed joy to reign, but that youthful breath drifted away as swiftly as a summer rain. There was nothing left after the dawn, except for a world darkened by a King’s broken heart. Now only Morpheus induced silhouettes dance in these lightless plains. They dance in sequence to the sound of time – unmoved by existence – trapped in a single thought I hope lies within you.
— H.S. Crow, Lunora and the Monster King
He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.
— Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
Don't give up when dark times come. The more storms you face in life, the stronger you'll be. Hold on. Your greater is coming.
— Germany Kent
I am German, yes, but I am not a Nazi. There is a difference, and one day I hope you understand that.
— Caroline Leech, Wait for Me
You're going to make it;You're going to be at peace;You're going to create, and love, and laugh, and live;You're going to do great things.
— Germany Kent
If that’s the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You’ve numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.
— Brent  Jones, The Fifteenth of June
I gave up drinking before my twentieth birthday. I haven’t touched the stuff since. And I’ve discovered that not everyone who does horrible things is a horrible person.
— Brent  Jones, The Fifteenth of June
Star light, Star brightFirst star I see tonight…I whispered your name to a star last nightSoftly, yet so boldI closed my eyes, and saw your faceI spoke those words untoldI wish I may, I wish I mightIt shouted from my soulHave this wish, I wish tonightThe wish I can't let go...
— N'Zuri Za Austin
To summarize, Easter Sunday is the most important Sunday. It is the Sunday of all Sundays. It is the day of the new beginning of the entire cosmos, the day of resurrection. In our worship we must be careful not to reduce our message to the Easter fact only. The Easter fact must include the message this fact proclaims: God makes all things new. It must also include the message that we have been raised with Christ. Calling God's people to die to sin and rise to the new life is central not only to Easter day but to the Easter season.
— Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year
See, you’ve got to understand, son. There’s two types of guys in this world. There’s guys . . . who think they’re in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.
— Brent  Jones, The Fifteenth of June
It’s like you’re always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.
— Brent  Jones, The Fifteenth of June
I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?
— Brent  Jones, The Fifteenth of June
It feels like I’m stuck in one spot. It’s been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you’re moving on without me. And I—I’m not ready to be alone.
— Brent  Jones, The Fifteenth of June
To everyone battling a difficulty or under attack right now, smile, keep your head up, keep moving and stay positive, you'll get through it.
— Germany Kent
Once you start questioning your beliefs, that's when it's all over. It is truly doubt that kills our conviction.
— Hyrum Yeakley
Some rumors said she was a demon from another world. Other rumors said she was death incarnate, someone to remind us of our misdeeds. But no one had said how beautiful she was. No one had mentioned her eyes. The ones that showed color only for a second. A hint of beauty in absolute blackness.
— Shannon A. Thompson, July Thunder
The only way you're going to reach places you've never gone is if you trust God's direction to do things you've never done.
— Germany Kent
I guess pencil crayons are like life; we hope to gain wisdom through our experiences, and sadly many of us learn important lessons later in life - however all that colour we scratched and pressed into our canvases create stories for our children, and grandchildren - things to laugh at as we look back, and hopefully things others can use as examples of lessons of caution, and tales of overcoming negative situations despite the overwhelming odds stacked up against us. Tales of past likes and loves, lessons learned, and the stories about how you met the right person and how you ended up with them - often a winding tale until there's an 'AH-HA' moment of enlightenment, lol. Tales of raw adversity...because rawness is beautiful, and learned wisdom which proves showing weakness is actual bravery. That not everyone you lose is a loss, and that in life, a situation will keep repeating itself until one learns their lesson. As sad as it is to see these pencils being shortened, and the way one tries to preserve what's left as they get shorter and shorter... the new box of crayons which will eventually be bought will continue the storytelling of the old, and add new stories until they themselves expire.
— Cheyanne Ratnam
After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding.
— Hyrum Yeakley
During these hard times in the world we should always remember to keep our families and friends close.
— Hyrum Yeakley
After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding..
— Hyrum Yeakley
Good Evening to inline expectations have not materialized, I hope tomorrow you can be hugged with the smile that tick, under the morning light through the sweet lips.
— Mieft Aenzeish
Hopes are so well constructed, so monstrously dashed!
— Emma Richler, Be My Wolff
So much can change from one day to the next, but the one thing that always remains the same is God. Stay focused on Him. In God We Trust.
— Germany Kent
In life, things can always go wrong, So always keep your heart strong, Carry on, and never give up hope.
— Mouloud Benzadi
Never stop seeking, even when it seems there is no hope
— Sunday Adelaja
Time in the most powerful thing.Not money, not power, not hope.A person can have everything theydesire but without time they are,all useless.
— Akash Lakhotia, World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer
SALLY: Grab what you want and hope for the best.
— Bijou Hunter, Whiskey Blues
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
— Lao Tzu
And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.
— Rachel L. Schade, Forsaken Kingdom
So I tried my best to stifle hope. Because hope's twin was despair, and despair was infinitely worse. If hope hurt, then despair was the absence of hurt. It was the absence of feeling. It was the absence of caring. I wanted very much to care.
— S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong
There is never a guarantee of survival, no matter your strength or skill or wit. There is only the day you are conceived and the day you die, and all else is a series of moments you either embrace or endure.
— Rachel L. Schade, Forsaken Kingdom
It’s like everyone has their own little recipe for happiness, but no one really seems all that happy.
— Brent  Jones, The Fifteenth of June
Happiness isn’t something you work toward, the same way misery isn’t something you work toward.
— Brent  Jones, The Fifteenth of June
Hope is something God gives us. Hope is...Hope is a bright light on a dark night. If your hope is guiding you into this shore, then this is where you should drop your anchor.
— Tiffany Reisz, The Night Mark
Hope was other people, no matter what the philosophers said. And this was a time that needed hope.
— Tiffany Reisz, The Night Mark
He pondered his turmoil, wondering which he feared most—losing his father or being alone in the world. Both were inevitable. Neither could be stopped or slowed down. All he could do now was brace for impact.
— Brent  Jones, The Fifteenth of June
I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered. But do not believe what you feel. You will not be easily broken.
— Rachel L. Schade, Forsaken Kingdom
What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?
— Rachel L. Schade, Forsaken Kingdom
I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours
— Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us
We weren’t that different after all, our souls laden with the same ache of loss, our hearts bursting with the same longing to save what remained of all we loved.
— Rachel L. Schade, Forsaken Kingdom
One of our goals is to encourage people that there is hope, there is a future.
— Garth Coonce
We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.
— Rachel L. Schade, Forsaken Kingdom
It was in the horizon of existence, that the Big Bang must have created our souls, we loved each other like the plane of time doesn't hold a fleck of control over us.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber