Quotes About Hope

the only true saviours are german

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

Belief in a future heaven creates a present hell.

Certain things in the past didn't go the way you wanted them to go. You are still resisting what happened in the past, and now you are resisting what is. Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

Large-scale waiting" is waiting for the next vacation, for a better job, for the children to grow up, for a truly meaningful relationship, for success, to make money, to be important, to become enlightened. It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

?ak i kad je nebo prekriveno teškim oblacima, nije rije? o tome da je Sunce nestalo. Sunce je još uvijek ondje, iza oblaka.

Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn't disappeared. It's still there on the other side of the clouds.

What you refer to as your "life" should more accurately be called your "life situation." It is psychological time: past and future. Certain things in the past didn't go the way you wanted them to go. You are still resisting what happened in the past, and now you are resisting what is. Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

Si el futuro imaginado es mejor, le da placer o anticipación placentera. Si es peor, crea ansiedad.

so when you look to the future for salvation, you are unconsciously looking to your own mind for salvation.

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

This, too, will pass...

If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

All utopian visions have this in common: the mental projection of a future time when all will be well, we will be saved, there will be peace and harmony and the end of our problems. There have been many such utopian visions. Some ended in disappointment, others in disaster.

Lo que te hace seguir adelante es la esperanza, pero la esperanza hace que estés enfocado en el futuro, y ese enfoque permanente perpetúa tu negación del ahora y, por tanto, tu infelicidad.

You will observe that the future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety.

Si el futuro imaginario es mejor, te da esperanza o expectativas placenteras. Si es peor, crea ansiedad. Ambas son ilusorias.

The mind then creates an obsession with the future as an escape from the unsatisfactory present.

conscious manifestation of form when he said, "Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."4

All things work together for good to them that love God.

A child dies two days after birth. Her parents cried out for help, and hundreds of friends cried out too. Might there still have been deliverance? Consider that the parents had been delivered from death and the Evil One and that the child belonged to God and would be with him. Those deliverances might not lessen the parents' and friends' grief, but they do mean that the community can grieve with hope.

On this side of the cross misery persists, but the scales are tipped in favor of joy.

Emotional suffering needs spiritual encouragement.

Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. (Ps. 86:1) O LORD, God of my salvation; I cry out day and night before you. Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry! (Ps. 88:1–2)