Quotes About Hope

This land makes me believe anything is possible. Here lies a gift unraveled as was meant to be: within its many folds are men, beasts, insects and grass. The green goes on and on in relentless beauty. As I look at the land I am heartbroken thinking of the future when I will not be here and when this place, too, will be something else.

You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.

Machig merged the two into a single word, god-demon, indicating that gods and demons are two sides of the same coin, that our hopes and fears are inextricably locked together.

In our culture we are taught that hopes are good. But really our hopes are often based on fears. Take a moment and think about your greatest hope. What do you really long for? Then think about your greatest fear. Aren't they the opposite sides of the same coin, both of which generate tension? I hope for love, and I fear loneliness. I hope for success, and I fear poverty. I hope for praise, and I fear criticism.

Although throughout this book I am most frequently using the term "demon" to describe what we need to transform, think also about your gods, your obsessive longings. Consider that our hopes and desires can be as problematic as our fears.

Our hopes are our gods. Gods create struggles similar to our battles with demons, except they are attempts to get something rather than get away from something. Gods are involved with struggles of desire and longing rather than aversion. It is important to distinguish between an inspiration, which triggers positive energy and optimism without great attachment or tension involved, and a god, which is connected to longing for something, or being obsessed with a certain outcome.

Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been shed like tears And lonely birds have sung their grief. ... After the war-fires of three months, One message from home is worth a ton of gold. ... I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin To hold the hairpins any more.

One day you're going to wake up and the world won't be as dark … One day the air will change, and the sun will feel good on your face again, and when it does, I want you to let it. It won't be a betrayal. It won't mean you've stopped caring. I promise.

Just so you know," Rebecca says, staring at nothing. "The confusion doesn't go away. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. You just have to figure out how to take that confusion, and turn it into something beautiful.

I have squandered away my father's political legacy...My personal life is in a mess...Can I turn the tables? - Rhea Malviya

Idiotic hopeful former self had hoped for them. Idiotic hopeful former self was very stupid. In

We can't be anything. We can never, never be what I dream of us being.

Moon took up so much of his headspace. He caught himself watching her the way he used to watch Cobra, hoping for a glance that would hint she might love him back. He wanted to bring her new scrolls that would make her face light up. He wanted to make her soup when her visions gave her headaches and sing her silly songs to help her stop worrying. He wanted to fly beside her while she saved the world.

Tangerines were not quite the epic change Blue wanted to see in the world.

Who would say no to their secret dream come true? Why would I ever say no? Say yes to the magic. Say yes to the bright future. Say yes. Qibli looked up into Darkstalker's eyes and said, "No.

Idiotic hopeful former self

it's a dark world, Peril, but you and I will stand in the fire and be safe, because we have each other"?

Idiotic hopeful former self had hoped for them. Idiotic hopeful former self was very stupid.

Had Queen Coral prepared a throne for her missing daughter, waiting all these years for her to come fill it? She

I mean, really, universe … what's the worst that could happen?

Tui T. Sutherland

Mightyclaws is working on it now," Hope answered. She nodded at the dragonet crouched over a flat rock in the pavilion, drawing intently on a square piece of paper. Queen Glory sat beside him, her scales all gold and dark purple, watching quietly over his shoulder. Behind her, Deathbringer was eyeing the forest fiercely. Most NightWings had accepted earrings to free themselves from all of Darkstalker's spells, even the ones that gave them extra powers.

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Good luck," Nautilus said. "You too," said Turtle. "I hope you die," Avalanche said to Peril.