Quotes About Hope

He came bearing not a sword but a candle.

I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.

Look for God like a man on fire looks for water.

Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Îl implora întruna pe Dumnezeu:"Te rog, te rog, deschide-mi inima". Asta era tot ce-ÅŸi dorea: o inima deschisa.(…)Dup? câteva luni de rug? continu? pentru o inim? deschis?, ce credeÅ£i c? a primit Richard? (…)o operaÅ£ie de urgen?? pe cord deschis. Pieptul i-a fost t?iat în dou?, coastele i-au fost dep?rtate unele de altele ÅŸi au l?sat lumina s?-i intre în inim? la propriu(…).

just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst right into bloom.

I will leave with the hope that the expansion of one person - the magnification of one life - is indeed an act of worth in this world. Even if that life, just this one time, happens to be nobody's but my own.

We all know that fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.

I hope that your heart is strong within your grieving.

There's this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.

Me peame laskma oma südamel aeg-ajalt puruneda. Purustatud süda on hea märk. See tähendab, et sa vähemalt pürgisid millegi poole.

The hardest part of your life is behind you now.

I saw it as proof that you must never surrender, that no doesn't always mean no, and that miraculous turns of fate can happen to those who persist in showing up.

If you clear out all that space in your mind that you're using right now to obsess about this guy, you'll have a vacuum there, an open spot—a doorway. And guess what the universe will do with that doorway? It will rush in—God will rush in—and fill you with more love than you ever dreamed.

Alma learned that her father drank out of bottles in the evening, and that those bottles sometimes contained danger (raised voices; banishment), but could also contain miracles—such

Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes. [Author was quoting Jack Gilbert, which he reportedly had said to a student]

Y si después de pasar por una época tan tenebrosa ves que queda un atisbo de felicidad en tu interior, no te queda más remedio que agarrar esa felicidad aunque acabes con la cara entera manchada de barro.

Make space for all these paradoxes to be equally true inside your soul, and I promise—you can make anything. So please calm down now and get back to work, okay? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes.

Por eso es solo porque he elegido confiar, lo que sencillamente equivale a amar. El amor por encima del sufrimiento. Siempre.

Lo que no quiere decir que vivir creativamente sea siempre fácil; solo que siempre es posible.

But Alma thought it would kill her, this profundity of sorrow. She could not sound out the bottom of it. She had been sinking into it for a year and a half, and feared she would sink forevermore. She cried herself out on Hanneke's neck, sobbing forth the harvest of her long-darkened spirits. She must have poured a tankard of tears down Hanneke's bosom, but Hanneke did not move or speak, except to repeat, "There, there, child. It will not kill you.

One must bear what cannot be escaped," she told Alma, as she rubbed clean her face. "You will not die of your grief—no more than the rest of us ever have.

Perhaps you, too, were taught to trust in darkness.

He kept begging God, "Please, please, please open my heart.