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Whoever doubt, hardens his own heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The heavenly Father is a hope to the hopeless.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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— There are people whose suffering makes them take their mind off other things in life
Hope is never lost more than we are
— Slaven Vujic
The flowers are for the woman I glimpsed for just a moment the other night before she ran away with tears brimming in her eyes." His eyes drifted over the becoming blush of her cheeks, wondering why it was suddenly there. "That's the woman I see when I look at you. That's the woman I want to get to know tonight. Do you think she might be joining us?
— Grace Willows, Lap Dancing
But the truth, I realize now, is that I always hoped. Even if I knew my hope was a lie, I held on to it.
— Joshua David Bellin, Freefall
I’ve always believed that, as long as we’re left alone to do what we’re good at, and be who we’ve decided to be, things will turn out all right in the end. Now, me being strapped to a chair, unable to see what is going on, and Egan coming to the rescue, carrying a freaking bomb. That is not — by a mile — all right.
— Cristelle Comby, Ruby Heart
As darkness falls and sleep pulls at me, I wonder, not for the first time, about life and death. Both are real and neither would exist without the other. They balance each other, as do night and day. Hot and cold. Summer and winter.Some people struggle with this concept. At times, they even forget all about it. But if you remember just one thing, let it be this: life always balances itself out. For every bad guy out there, there is someone equally good to make things right again.
— Cristelle Comby, Blind Chess
Never ever let your hope and faith in God die. Keep hoping until hope dies; remember, however, that hope never dies. God is never an uncaring Father. The most important thing we can ever have from Him whilst we live is the gift of life we have. We must never ever trade it for anything else!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Do you remember what you're supposed to do now? Kiss the palm of your hand and press it against your heart.
— Paullina Simons, The Summer Garden
Without hope, we lose heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There are people whose suffering makes them take their mind off other things in life
—  so focused are they on their misery that they fail to notice their simple blessings. My prayer for such people is May they not ignore the happiness that still exists. May they see the rainbow at the end of the road. May they find strength to carry on and never give up. May they never lose hope.
The power within is strength of the spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Only the spirit nourishes the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I will take you home, his lord had said. Home. He held to that word, as a man holds to a rope in a raging sea.
— Elizabeth A. Lynn, Dragon's Winter
If we longer rely on God, it means we have rejected the rule of a righteous Ruler.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can have what you desire if it is a holy dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
This world is filled with critics already
—  being an encourager is what we need to be.
Wylan summoned every bit of bravado he'd learned from Nina, the will he'd learned from Matthias, the focus he'd studied in Kaz, the courage he'd learned from Inej, and the wild, reckless hope he'd learned from Jesper, the belief that no matter the odds, somehow they would win.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
Some people grow older and more cynical. Some people become just the opposite. Life hurts without hope, and cynicism, once a luxury, becomes unaffordable.
— William Norwich, My Mrs. Brown
Hope against hope, is the grace of faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope is a delicate thing. A dangerous thing.
— Ally Carter, Take the Key and Lock Her Up
You must first feel sorry for your sins, to seek the free gift of grace of salvation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our inner fire is the spark of hope that drives us through even the darkest times. Do not be so quick to dismiss it.
— Dave Roman, The Last Airbender: Prequel - Zuko's Story
Be patient in painful times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Make time to pray.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What a delight to desire to pray?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A sin confessed, a guilt cleared by grace.
— Lailah Gifty, Akita
Suffering makes a man to seek for his Saviour.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is a sacred time, when the soul desire to know the spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Saviour, sacrifice his life as offering for sin.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The corpse opened his eyes.
— Donato Carrisi, The Lost Girls of Rome
Every one at some point felt discouraged, it was our faithful companions, who lifted our spirit to find hope again.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The word of God is good to hear.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hopeful people are more easily controlled, but the volume must be managed. Too much hope leaves a person emboldened and resistant. Too little leaves them disabled and useless. But just the right amount of hope subjugates them. They cradle it like a dying ember, and they'll do anything to keep the wind from extinguishing it. They'll serve.
— R.J.  Lawrence, The Xactilias Project
What else is a child, but hope? Hope for the future, hope for one's own salvation, hope for a tomorrow that shines as bright and warm as the best yesterday you can remember.
— Emily Littlejohn, Inherit the Bones
La vie est vaine,Un peu d’amour,Un peu de haine,Et puis—Bonjour!La vie est brève:Un peu d’espoir,Un peu de rèveEt puis—Bon soir! Ah, brief is Life,Love’s short sweet way,With dreamings rife,And then—Good-day!And Life is vain—Hope’s vague delight,Grief’s transient pain,And then—Good-night.
— George du Maurie
Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children
I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of the force they will bring against us. They will kill us, all of us, for we are slaves and we cannot be allowed even the barest hope of freedom. Without us, they have no empire.
— Anthony  Ryan, Queen of Fire
If you believe our cause so hopeless, why join us?""Because you offered something I had forgotten could be offered, a choice. And I choose to die free.
— Anthony  Ryan, Queen of Fire
For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.
— Christine de Pizan, The Selected Writings
Yes, my scars shape meToday, I have learnt to coverit with fabric made of hope, faith, perseverance, and determination. For this, I am grateful to life
— Vijaya Gowrisankar
Pushed into darkness, the only way out wasto seek light with thetorch of hope and faithburning in my heart
— Vijaya Gowrisankar
With grace of God, we can only be glad.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You have travel too far to quit, may the grace of faith, keep you going in the forward motion to reach the ultimate goal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I count everything loss, to gain anything under the power of grace in Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, in sacred moment of conception.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Grace is a free sacred gift from God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The spirit of a man shall sustain him in his sick bed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes, crazy is exactly what we need.
— Dennis Canfield, Back to Christmas
There is a hope of salvation for every sinner.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The optimist's hope and the pessimist's despair: reciprocal illusions.
— Marty Rubin
Some people are like vacuums. They will suck everything out of you until there is nothing left of you behind
— Mohadesa Najumi
I know you are tired. I know you are hurting. I know that even among the crowds and or with your closest loved ones, you feel terribly alone in the world. I know that in the quietness, a thousand hell hounds are barking and snarling at your heels.They tell you, "Everything is wrong with you. You are a failure. You will never live to see your dreams and visions come to pass. You know you should just throw in the towel. No one would even miss you if you were gone. Exit from this cruel insane assylum you call home. We will even tell you how to end 'it'."But don't you dare entertain those hounds of hell, no, not even for one moment. See, you not only have the elixir of Life inside of your organs and your veins; you are the Elixir of Life of a Celestial domain. For every hell hound nipping at your ears, there are eight hundred angels rushing to you with every holy breath....you take. Every step you make fuels the fire of Love in your behalf.See, nothing is wrong with you. Every thing is right with you. You are cut from iron. You have long exchanged your velveteen fabric and cotton stuffing for blazen guts and a heart of gold. You are the head and not the tail. You are the water in the desert, the ripple in the steam, the sword AND the stone and you, glorious being, are not alone!We are one and we are many. We've known lack, but we are plenty. We are not on the cusp of a break through. We are the cusp and we are the break --- through. We are the old and we are the new. Who knew? You did. You do. And don't you ever forget that.
— Mishi McCoy, The Lovely Knowing
\with hope, you can survive any shock.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith in God is full assurance of hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope is full assurance of faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Illusion"A man wants to be freeflying in the emptiness of the universeHe thinks he means somethingin the endlessness of natureA man wakes upbeing only a dust
— Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon
She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.
— Grace Willows
Fill your mind Holy Scripture, that speak life into your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With faith in God, we can walk through the fires unharmed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Jesus Christ is three in one: the way, the truth, and the life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
O God let your face shine on us!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every sin can be forgiven by the heavenly Father.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The vision is always for the appointed time. Though it tarry, it will not fail. It shall surely come to pass in perfect moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Daily mediation is great to build a self confidence, peace of mind, and strong trust in God, the Divine Being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Stay hopeful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Pray daily.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May God overflow your life with bountiful blessings of grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Stay forever enthusiastic about your desirable dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not dwell on your loss. Look forward with bright new hopes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Remember how we forgot?Once upon a time, we were youngOur dreams hung like applesWaiting to be picked and peeledAnd hope was something needing to be reeled-inSo we can fill the always empty big fish bin with the one that got awayAnd proudly say that "this time, impossible is not an option"Because success is so akin to effort and opportunity they could be relatedSo we took chancesWe figure skated on thin iceBelieved that each slice of life was served with something sweet on the sideAnd failure was never nearly as important as the fact that we triedThat in the war against frailty and limitationWe supplied the determination it takes to make ideas and goals the parents of PossibilityAnd we believe ourselves to be members of this familyNot just one branch on one treeBut a forest whose roots make up a dynasty
— Shane L. Koyczan, Remembrance Year
Even more than a heart, hope was a necessary traveling companion.
— Julianne Donaldson, Blackmoore
Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -And sore must be the storm -That could abash the little BirdThat kept so many warm -I’ve heard it in the chillest land -And on the strangest Sea -Yet - never - in Extremity,It asked a crumb - of me.
— Emily Dickinson
What is the fear of God? The grace to shun evil.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Even the worst days have an ending, and the best days have a beginning.
— Jennifer Coletta
something was dead in each of us,and what was dead was hope.
— Oscar Wilde, The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
Hope on you is worthless because you make a mark to forgot
— ascertain solo
The gospel of Christ Jesus is the grace of salvation of souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Education is the realization of hope for the future.
— Victor Tam
Es dificilísimo que hasta los más bondadosos, los que más te quieren, se tomen tus intereses verdaderamente en serio, porque suelen aconsejarte desde una vida más segura y más aislada que la tuya, en la que escapar no es una realidad, sino algo con lo que de vez en cuando sueñan.
— Rachel Cusk, Outline
My job as a therapist is to help victims of trauma understand that they are not to blame. They are not responsible for the bad things that happened to them as children, nor are they responsible for the personal problems that developed as a result. What they are responsible for is fixing those problems. This can only be done by bravely facing the past, identifying the effects that the past has on the present, and working through all the painful emotional baggage.- Scared Selfless
— Michelle Stevens
Hope is a curious thing. You always seem to loose it when you most need it.
— P.B. McIlrath
You see, if we have no hope, we have nothing
— Tarun Betala
Suddenly I heard Virginia’s voice calling to me from the sitting room window: “Hitler is making a speech.” I shouted back, “I shan’t come. I’m planting iris and they will be flowering long after he is dead.
— Leonard Woolf, Downhill All The Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919 To 1939
There is still hope that if the people refuse to give up and keep silent, no matter how long or inconsequential their voices could be at the beginning, it would still be heard and justice be served.
— Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
Patriarchy doesn't get yet that 'hope' is a powerful force that drives creativity. Otherwise words like 'false' and 'hope' would never be forced into this unconscious coupling....Hope is not false. And never has been... Rather, hope is part of the often forgotten feminine contribution to the creative process.
— Deirdre Morris, WHICH FERTILITY FORUM? 3 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST FORUM FOR YOUR PREGNANCY SUCCESS
I want things to change in The Nameless City. I want the people in the city to finally have some influence over its future. We've never had that before. If there's something I can do to make this council of nations happen, I want to know about it. Don't tell me not to be worried. Tell me how to help.
— Faith Erin Hicks, The Stone Heart
I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me nowis a beginning or an end.
— Jack Gilbert, The Dance Most of All: Poems
Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do and all of the things we are planning and praying to do but we never really have the time to actually get down and get these things done.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
When you are 70% sure, act /because the other 30% is reserved for hope /which is doubt turned upside-down.
— Dean Young, Elegy On Toy Piano
The name outlaw Christian describes the kind of Christian I am and the kind I’m setting myself free to become: namely, a follower of Jesus who no longer accepts cocky clichés, hackneyed hope, or snappy theodicies—defenses of God’s goodness and power—that explain away evil and suffering with a theo-magical sleight of hand. An outlaw Christian doesn’t condemn questions or discourage doubt. Instead, an outlaw Christian seeks to live an authentic life of faith and integrity, and chooses the defy the unwritten laws governing suffering, grief, and hope that our culture and religious traditions have asked us to ingest. The faith of an outlaw Christian is bold, outspoken, and active in a world of pain.
— Jacqueline A. Bussie, Outlaw Christian: Finding Authentic Faith by Breaking the 'Rules'
The rain begins with a single drop
— Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart’s desire.
— Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.
— Rose Tremain, Music & Silence
I stood in my garden as the rain poured down, eyes closed, and when I opened them I thought to myself how I'd never seen anything more beautiful. Green flashed before my eyes; trees, leaves and grass, glittering with raindrops, the tears of angels weeping with sadness and joy; green, the colour of love, to remind me why I'm here.
— Sarah Brownlee
Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you'll look back on everything you've been through and thank God for it.
— Germany Kent
I would rather lie facedown on the ground and use my body as a bridge, than stand proud and tall and use my body as a wall.
— Kamand Kojouri
We cannot hunt for love. We can only surrender and become love’s prey.
— Kamand Kojouri
The enemy fights the hardest when you are closest to your breakthrough. Know that your best days are ahead and no weapon formed will prosper.
— Germany Kent
Don't let the lies that darken our world keep you from living within your truth.
— Scott Stabile
We all get in a funk sometimes.It doesn't mean you're failing, or ungrateful, or stupid, or lost. It means you're human.The Funk happens. For all of us. We can’t be happy all the time. We don’t need to be.
— Scott Stabile
God knows whatever comes your way, in any given circumstance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When we admit and deal with difference; when we deal with the deep bitterness; when we deal with the horror of even our different nightmares; when we turn them and look at them, it’s like looking at death: hard but possible. If you look at it directly without embracing it, then there is much less that you can ever be made to fear.
— Audre Lorde
shit happens, miracles don't
— Mohamed el airou
The Perfectionist pushed Tom onto her bed. She took off his shirt. She took off his shoes and his socks. She took off his pants. She took off his boxers.With most guys the Perfectionist would stop there. She didn’t. She was still feeling reckless. She took off his skin. She took off his nervous system. She lifted up his rib cage. His heart beat in her hand. And there, underneath it, she found a rusted tin box. She opened it. Inside she found his hopes, his dreams and his fears. She stared at them. She was surprised to find them there and surprised at how beautiful they were. At that exact moment, the Perfectionist fell in love with Tom.
— Andrew Kaufman, All My Friends are Superheroes
The heavenly Father is faithful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
How can we believe in Christ Jesus, without reading the Holy Bible?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You might just find God in a mirror one day.
— Kamand Kojouri
True faith rely on God's power.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
i’m going to love again so quietlyno one will know i’m home.
— stephanie   roberts
Where God guides, He provides. No matter how things look, God is still in control. Stay in peace and be hopeful. Your blessing is coming soon.
— Germany Kent
It's making me so sad that you are unreachable. My desire for your touch, and your lips. It's breaking me inside. I'm so scared you are the only one i will ever love. I'm so scared because I know there is no other you.
— Salomé Steinz
We all make mistakes, the danger lies in letting those mistakes make us. Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up.
— Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book
Love must risk all or perish.
— Anthony  Ryan, Blood Song
Until then, never lose hope. Never stop loving me. Never forget.  Never Never
— Colleen Hoover, Never Never: Part Two
La mise en place du processus de résilience externe doit être continue autour de l'enfant blessé. Son accueil après l'agression constitue la première maille nécessaire et pas forcément verbale, pour renouer le lien après la déchirure. La deuxième maille, plus tardive, exige que les familles et les institutions offrent à l'enfant des lieux pour y produire ses représentations du traumatisme. La troisième maille, sociale et culturelle, se met en place quand la société propose à ces enfants la possibilité de se socialiser. Il ne reste plus qu'à tricoter sa résilience pendant tout le reste de sa vie.
— Boris Cyrulnik, Les vilains petits canards
Human mind is the only real hope for the future of humanity! Have faith in human mind which is the only instrument who can protect you in this savage universe!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When we love something we never give up.
— Beverley Lee, A Shining in the Shadows
Every change, those subtle-slow, and those drastically sudden, has brought me into myself.
— Amanda Linsmeier, Beach Glass & Other Broken Things
De bomen komen uit de gronden uit hun stam de twijgen.En iedereen vindt het heel gewoondat zij weer bladeren krijgen.We zien ze vallen naar de gronden dan opnieuw weer groeien.Zo heeft de aarde ons geleerddat al wat sterft zal bloeien.
— Toon Hermans
The darkest things of this world nestle inseparable from, and do not eclipse, its equally boundless graces and glories.
— Brian Awehali
Most of the time we are too critical to ourselves that we don't see worth in small achievements and feel I could done better. Stop Being Hard to Yourself.
— The Idealist Merchant
Never choose between your heart or brain. Neither instincts nor anything perfectly planned is always right. Follow what heart says but let brain accompany it.
— The Idealist Merchant
I look around and see so much fear, people getting more and more comfortable with their hate, more at ease being mean, more united in their separation. And I think, NO. Not me. I will not get lost in this fearful world. I will not play with bullies. I will continue to be brave and kind. I will speak for real unity. And no matter what, I will never stop loving.
— Scott Stabile
A single prayer can alter your destiny if you have enough faith to believe. If this can be true, pray daily prayers for that someone, too.
— Machel Shull
Some of us live in the future,Connected to hurts from our past,If tomorrow is colored by bitter regret,Then today has been painted blackSome of us live in the presentConnected to gifts from our past,If tomorrow is colored by purposeful thought,the today's masterpiece has been cast.
— J.A. Conner
You will trip up and fall sometimes. It doesn't take away from how great you are. You will not always say the right thing. It doesn't revoke the light within you.
— Stalina Goodwin, Dear Beautiful: 31 Days of Affirmations for Women
The truth is that you may mess up a bit. Don’t panic. Relax and remember to give your best and let the chips fall where they may.
— Stalina Goodwin
Anger gets me going.Hope sustains me.
— Scott Stabile
My recurring desire for you has brought me to a point, where, the life I always imagine I shall have with you, seems like a distant memory.
— A.R.
My earnest desire for you has brought me to a point, where the life I've imagined we shall have, seems like a distant memory.
— A.D. Orbit
Somewhere someone else’s break-through is hinging on you simply knowing that you matter. So please, remind yourself of this truth every single day.
— Stalina Goodwin, Dear Beautiful: 31 Days of Affirmations for Women
She had this way of always finding the good and believing in everything despite all she had seen.
— Becca Lee
Love doesn't need your permission, that's what hope is for.
— R.A.Delmonico
Don’t allow anyone to shame you with your life story. Walk in your truth knowing that you are the better because of it. It is because of all the things you've been through that you are able to be who you are today.
— Stalina Goodwin, Dear Beautiful: 31 Days of Affirmations for Women
Poetry flows from our hearts. It is like that mass of snow we call a glacier and when it starts its slow movement, it thaws all the icicles, which keep mounting within us, in the hope of receiving the warmth of words.
— Balroop Singh
Life is all we need.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What do you tell of yourself? Speak words of faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't trust a man who claims one a liar or a cheat, they will surely define those words of themselves.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
If you believe in Christ Jesus, you shall not perish but have everlasting life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Why should you boast? You are not saved by your works but by the grace of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Somewhere inside that hurting body, there is something better, something stronger, something real.
— R. M. Drake
You must remember that you were made so that the world might be graced with a brilliance that only YOU can display.
— Stalina Goodwin, Dear Beautiful: 31 Days of Affirmations for Women
Fight your battles on your knees.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Dear newlywed wife, somebody out there is determined to shape your view of intimacy and marriage. You get to choose who will shape your opinion; the Author of marriage or offended humans?
— Ngina Otiende, The Wedding Night: Embracing Sexual Intimacy as New Bride
God has a passion for brand new beginnings.
— Ngina Otiende, The Wedding Night: Embracing Sexual Intimacy as New Bride
Other people will not always see our worth the way we wish they would. Sometimes our own loved ones won’t be able to compute our true value. That doesn’t mean you are of less value or worth. It means that they’re unable to see you for the amazing wonder that you are and that’s their loss.
— Stalina Goodwin, Dear Beautiful: 31 Days of Affirmations for Women
What if, in the bigger scheme of things, God put the yearning and desire for our husbands, not so a man could fulfill all of it, but so we could catch a glimpse of what it means to fully and wholly yearn for God?
— Ngina Otiende, The Wedding Night: Embracing Sexual Intimacy as New Bride
Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky." Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride
— Grace Willows
I know nothing about war. But let me tell you what I believe. I think running from responsibility breeds self-loathing and despair. I think people can, and do, rise to the occasion, and even a single person can make an incredible difference. What they need are leaders who believe in them, a belief that gives birth to hope. With hope, people can do remarkable things, amazing things.
— Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Swords
Impossibility, like wineExhilarates the manWho tastes it; PossibilityIs flavoreless.
— Emily Dickinson
The bird of hope singsPerched on the branches of twilight;Never grieve for anythingFor, the day always follows the night!
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. It involves being hopeful and motivated and keeping eyes on the prize ahead. Saying that everything is fine or that it will never get any better are ways of going nowhere or of making it impossible to go anywhere. Either approach implies that there is no road out or that, if there is, you don’t need to or can’t go down it. You can. We have.
— Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
He lifted himself out of the darkness of his fears, into a bright new world of possibility.
— Scott Stabile
One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we die; and hope, which says the first disease is not terminal. Hope is built into the structure of our personalities, into the depths of our unconscious; it plagues us to the very moment of our death. The critical question is whether hope is self-deception, the ultimate cruelty of a cruel and tricky universe, or whether it is just possibly the imprint of reality.
— Brennan Manning, The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus
She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand.
— Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting
Requiring neither wood nor urns,Inside me is a fire that burns;Advising me to never accept defeat,The blessed fruit of hope it churns!
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
I want to hear the wind in the trees. Feel the sun warm my back. I want to see birds fly in a sky with no boundaries.
— Lea Doué, The Firethorn Crown
beneath the pain of your fears, wild and ready, lives your truth, the essence of your singular beauty, hoping, waiting for you to set it free.
— Scott Stabile
It is my sincerest hope to leave this world in better shape than which I found it. Everyone says that. However the distinction I feel that is necessary to make is. I hope to leave this world better in spite of my departure, not because of it.
— Kay Whitley, Out Loud: A collection of spoken word poetry
He knew his words could not convey the impossible love he felt for her, so he held her stare and hoped (prayed!) she would understand the immensity of it all.
— Scott Stabile
Do not be sorrow in the storm. Let the joy of Lord be your strength to smile.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She shot out of her seat, tired of waiting, at last ready to create her future.
— Scott Stabile
It's hard to believe sometime, but hope never lets you truly stop believing. - Lo
— Jackson Pearce, Fathomless
I don't think anybody ever really knows what's going to happen," he said. "We're all just out here hoping for the best.
— Sarah Dessen, Once and for All
Doubt is a delusion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The heavenly Father is hope to the hopeless.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like his own cell. Only instead of holding a man, that cage held a tiger, and that tiger's name was Hope. Williams produced the key that unlocked the cage and the tiger was out, willy-nilly, to roam his brain.
— Stephen King, Different Seasons
Sure is a word of hope not the word of trust
— Dattasmita HV
In spite of the horror, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless nights, I'm finally alive. I'm not pretending. I feel real. I'm not playing charades anymore. I wouldn't go back to the way I was for anything. I'm really like a different person. I'm where I am, and I'm making the most of it. I know I'm courageous now. I found out I had it in me to face this. — Barbara
— Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
But I want you to know," Cleo continued, "that there is hope. And that I am living proof of that hope. Because, even though I was forced into this marriage against my will, I have come to know Prince Magnus Lukas Damora very well these last months. And one thing I've learned is that Prince Magnus is nothing like his father. Prince Magnus is brave and compassionate, and he truly wants what's just and best for this kingdom. Kindness is what makes a good king who will put the needs and rights of his people before his own desires.
— Morgan Rhodes, Frozen Tides
Choose the Path to Enlightenment over the path of least resistance
— Brian Coletta, Garden of Anarchy: the Unity Adventures
Joyful hope!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My only Hope is in Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to have hope than to be without hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not fear, have faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I wanted freedom in the same way I wanted my next breath: an unspoken but constant desire.
— Jodi Meadows, Before She Ignites
It was a look that gave her a tingle, all right, but not in a good way. In that look she saw her silly bloody hopes as twisted and broken as she’d left that Lowlander’s arm, and it was no one’s fault but her own. She shouldn’t have let herself hope, but hopes are like weeds: however often you root them out they keep on springing up.
— Joe Abercrombie, Half the World
With hope, we can endure any hardship.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope is a gift. Use it wisely.
— Harley King
He had no money or influence here. The clothes on his back were ragged, his moccasins were worn, and he was skeletally thin from lack of food and walking. But he would sail on a ship bound for England even if he had to scrub the decks to pay his way.He was Reynaud St. Aubyn, the Viscount of Hope, and by God or the devil, he was going home.
— Elizabeth Hoyt, To Desire a Devil
God is our hope and strength. And hope never disappoints. (Romans 5:5). We can place our confidence in Him without fear.
— Teresa Schultz, The Bible In Poetry,
I continuously see myself on an airplane that has unlimited fuel. I go here and there but can't stop. Always flying over my destination. I've come to realize I must jump off with my parachute on of course. That is how I'm viewing my life right now.Once I find that loophole than I've reached my destination to success.
— Hyrum Yeakley
It seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master Marner, for all it's dark to you and me.''No,' said Silas, 'no; that doesn't hinder. Since the time the child was sent to me and I've come to love her as myself, I've had light enough to trusten by; and now she says she'll never leave me, I think I shall trusten until I die.
— George Eliot, Silas Marner
Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief- what is faith- if you don't continue in it after failure.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire
We are worth fighting for,” we both whispered. Giving one another permission, into each other madness.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Prayer teaches us the grace of persistent effort.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The trials test the strength of faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The moral of the story is, faith does not always bring you happiness, wealth or a comfortable lifestyle filled with fun things to do. What faith does bring us is hope while living out God's attitudes of: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, all for the glory of God and the establishment of his kingdom.
— Reid A. Ashbaucher, How To Understand And Live Your Faith
Yet something else trickles in between the cracks of this despairing thought. The hope of something to fill that emptiness. The hope that, perhaps, I have found it already. And suddenly hope is a thing alive, soaring in me. Its wings beat against my ribs, wild with the promise of joy.
— Ashlee Willis, A Wish Made of Glass
Don’t look at me like that, I see those pink cheeks when you talk about him,” she observed. “In my day, if I learned anything, it was to tell the ones you love how much love them. When I was your age, I fell in love with a beautiful woman. You know, fifties and all, I never told her, and she married a man that abused her terribly.” She paused, and Artemis could tell her eyes were dampening. “I went to her funeral two years after she moved away. In her things, there was a letter for me, telling me how much love she’d held in her heart and couldn’t speak. I was happy, my husband and my kids, but I always wonder, what woulda happened if I’d told her how much I loved her.” She smiled again. “Just don’t waste time, that’s what I’ll say. Call it old advice from an interfering old woman.
— Beverly L. Anderson, Stolen Innocence
With the spirit of endurance, we shall strive in any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Surround yourself with what matters.
— hlbalcomb
She lives fearlessly in the light of her own truth.
— H.L. Balcomb
Hope is an undiscovered disappointment
— Unknown
The biggest act of rebellion right now is remaining defiantly hopeful.
— Rupert Dreyfus, Prezident Scumbag!: A Sick Bastard Novella
The love of one individual is far more powerful than the hate of one million.
— Joan Ambu
He saw a figure in white robes near the bridge entrance and turned the tape over in his hand. He approached the woman and said, his tone respectful, "Your Highness. The transmission we received...", seemed younger every day, even as her responsibilities grew and grew.He held out his hand. Childlike fingers took the tape."What is it they've sent us?" he asked.Prince Leia Organa looked at him as if he'd placed another burden on her shoulders - another responsibility to add to a count of thousands - and she was proud to bear it."Hope," she said.Raymus believed her.
— Alexander Freed, Rogue One - A Star Wars Story
If, years later, I do use the slit detector to observe which way the electron went, it will mean that many years earlier the electron must have passed through one slit or the other. But if I don't use the "slit detector," then the electron must have passed through both slits. This is, of course, extremely weird. My actions at the beginning of the twenty-first century can change what happened thousands of years ago when the electron began its journey. It seems that just as there are multiple futures, there are also multiple pasts, and my acts of observation in the present can decide what happened in the past. As much as it challenges any hope of ever really knowing the future, quantum physics asks whether I can ever really know the past. It seems that the past is also in a superposition of possibilities that crystallize only once they are observed.
— Marcus du Sautoy, The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.
— Bertolt Brecht
If this turns to friendship, it only meansThat one of us will suffer.That when we meet after the worst of endings,There will only be this skein of words between us—Most of them for boredom, fewer for loneliness—Rising out of our mutual space of breath, leavingBehind a bluer sky each moment of departure.And one of us will cling on to its blue,Hung on partings like a muted cloud, whileThe other rides on a wing of word away from here.
— Cyril Wong, Below: Absence: Poems
Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your mother wailed on the other end of the phone, grieving her loss and complaining about the basketball of a goitre perched on her shoulder. She told you, your father walked onto the veranda and saw a chook floating ten feet above the ground. The chook didn’t flap a feather and just sat there brooding, swaying in the breeze.
— Jon Gresham, We Rose Up Slowly
Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.
— Anthony Liccione
Suddenly feeling overwhelmed, Talon said, 'It doesn’t matter. They are all dead.' He felt moisture gathering in his eyes and blinked. 'It’s been a while since I’ve felt that.'Caleb nodded. 'It never goes away, completely. But you’ll discover other things in life.
— Raymond E. Feist, Talon of the Silver Hawk
Hope is the greatest gift and the greatest evil...Hope saved us and hope might yet kill us.
— Nalini Singh, Silver Silence
As long as there's a maybe there will be a hopr
— Hadil Diaf
We love out of compassion, passion or a sense of commitment.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Me Before Them
For it is in selfishness & greed most choose to walk. In hate we choose to be. Yes even the words of love fall from false lips in these times, spreading a deceitful lie about truth itself. We'd rather be consumed by our flesh than to be a giver of life. Shackled by our world in Lou of freeing it. Destroying our meaning - instead of embracing it.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
This life required scars,...Some were on the outside, and some they carried on the inside. But scars weren’t shameful. They meant survival. They meant putting in work. They meant sticking around and getting through the hard stuff just on the chance that things could get better.
— T.S. Joyce, Red Havoc Bad Bear
I am focusing on positive thoughts – thoughts of hope, thoughts of love, thoughts of faith …
— Latika Teotia
To live a blissful life fill your heart with love, hope, compassion and kindness; since heart alone has the key to bliss...
— Latika Teotia
Hope can live in a vacuum.
— Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills
The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns,
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Me Before Them
How we give matters. If your thoughts & goals are selfish, than so be your fief. For it is through the heart that we prosper & through each other that we grow.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
Many men are broken in spirit because of bitterness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never allow any bitterness to take root in your heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Even a single thread of hope is still a very powerful thing. Grab onto it with both hands and never let it go.
— Lorri Faye
I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had cared enough, that you'd made a difference, that you would again. Dwelling on the worst was no way to live.
— Gwenda Bond, Triple Threat
Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I'm not going to lie: there are no good options here.
— Jackson Lanzing, Joyride Vol. 2
Some say only the most trustworthy & loving go through trials we don't understand. I say that it's only them who didn't let it change who they were.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
When with meaning we walk - we go not where comfort resides, but where truth and love show in abundance.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
Do not seek to be known as honorable or courageous. Simply as true. It is then you will surely be known as them both.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
One beautiful smile can always be a good reason for our day to start with great hope for a better future
— Nani Rusewa
When you're completely lost, when you have no idea what comes next or why things are happening, faith is what gets you through. Even if you're not sure what you believe, you keep doing the things you know in your heart are the right things. That is faith, Carter. It's not the absence of questions. It's continuing, day in and day out, in spite of those questions.
— Vannetta Chapman, Light of Dawn
The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt, through the light: only love lasts.
— Melina Sempill Watts
No one is ever really lost as long as their story still exists.
— R.M. Romero, The Dollmaker of Krakow
Fret not, fret not.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks.
— Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
Maybe not today, Maybe not tomorrow. But somewhere down the line, there has to be a light.
— Dana Johnson
God is forever faithful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Nurture your dreams to fruition, refuse to let the rot in reality.
— Tyconis D. Allison Ty
You are the light in my darkness,Restful peace for my soul.You are the one who rescues me,Never let me go.
— Lily G Blunt
And you are going to be to the light of our kingdom. No one is going to hurt you.
— Alyson Serena Stone, Once
The Truth is first rejected. Then finally accepted.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Success is not got in twinkling of an eye.
— Akanksha Agrawal
Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.
— Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
When Faith dawn, fear fades.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is a flammable fire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is full force.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.
— Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn
Praying is a persuasive act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If someone gives you tough situation, it's better to make a distance.
— Avinash Advani
Purify your heart with prayer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope?" She eyed Cassian dubiously. "Is that the best the Rebel Intelligence can do?" Cassian might as well have shrugged. "Rebellions are built on hope," he said
— Alexander Freed, Rogue One - A Star Wars Story
For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can have no objection to tears for any mortal who dies and goes to his destiny. And this is the only consolation we wretched mortals can give, to cut our hair and let the tears roll down our faces.
— Homer, The Odyssey
Hope will get you through the day and love shall carry you through the night. A couple of life's pillars.
— Tyconis D. Allison Ty
Whatever you are pursuing don't stop, or you will forever be wondering how it would've turned out. Even if no one else believes, never give up on yourself.
— Tyconis D. Allison Ty
Don't ever get discouraged, your effort may not be acknowledged but trust me it's noticed.
— Tyconis D. Allison Ty
This is what I know
—  people's hopes go on forever.
You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.
— Grace Willows, To  Kiss a King
The world is a cruel mother, a matron of darkness, selfishness, greed, and misery. For most, their time suckling at her breast is naught but a scramble through stinging, tearing briars before a naked, shameful collapse as the flesh gives out. And yet in the bright eyes of every newborn, there lies a spark, a potential for goodness, the possibility of a life worth living. That spark deserves its chance. And though most of them will turn out to be as worthless as the parents who sired them, while the cruelty of the earth will tell them to release their innocence and join in the drawing of daggers, every now and then one manages to clutch to its beauty and refuses to release it into the dark.
— Ed McDonald, Blackwing
Who’s gonna bring the wild animals some hope? If we don’t love them the way they are..
— Munia Khan
If where we are now and whatever we are going through does not motivate us to leave this world better than the way we met it, we are in this world for wrong reasons.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
WaitingI am waiting for the special day,when you will say "i will stay",I am waiting for the night,when you will be there and everything's right,I am waiting for that magical rain,that will wash away the distance, sepration and pain,I am waiting for a change,when everything will get arranged,I am waiting for a meeting,when i can see you, and my heart can start beating,I am waiting for a fight,after which i can hold you in my arms tight,I am waiting for a blue moon,when we can meet and i hope it will come soon,I am waiting for the special day,when you will say "i will stay",
— Ratish Edwards
We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Faith is life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never live life without a hope. Hope is a tree of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never live life without a hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope is a tree of Life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is never a fast track. But a force of faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Should IToday I am in search of a light,that can show me a way bright,Today I am trying to find a reason,For why my life feels like a prison,I am trying to find a way,So that, even just for a day,my seldom happiness could stay,I am trying to find a reason of pain,to know why it hurts and sometimes eyes rain,Today looking back at life and planning for future,I cannot forget those people and miss ventures,Should I stay, wait or move on,Or should I believe that, they moved on,Should i forget that old house and small streets,Or can I forget the faces, lanes and their good deeds,Its been a while and they are changed,Should I forget them or remember them as a tale,I feel so big, heavy and old,Should i take some decisions bold,Life being so rude and cold,But always i found a reason to stay and take hold,I hope for a light, reason and rain,Hope to overcome darkness, treason and pain.
— Ratish Edwards
I wish I could tell you it doesn't matter. I wish I could hold you close and tell that you will be loved for what you do, that you are incredible and unique. I wish you knew how much you were needed, how much I miss you. I wish. You dream of desires and hopes, and that is why I dream of you - because you are my desire and hope.
— Matthew Laurence, Freya