Quotes About Hope

If we're willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be exterminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation. This is the first step on the path.

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there. It's better to take a straight look at all our hopes and fears.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next. We can try to control the uncontrollable by looking for security and predictability, always hoping to be comfortable and safe. But the truth is that we can never avoid uncertainty. This not-knowing is part of the adventure. It's also what makes us afraid.

Giving up hope is encouragement to stick with yourself, to make friends with yourself, to not run away from yourself, to return to the bare bones, no matter what's going on.

So when I would start to become depressed, I would remember, "Now wait a minute. Maybe I just have to figure out how to rouse myself genuinely, because there are a lot of people suffering like this, and if I can do it, they can do it.

If we're willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be exterminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation.

So have a good journey home, and always remember—never give up!

Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear.

Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when it is long deferred.

A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

Art is a wound turned into light.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.

The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.