All Quotes By Tag: Hope
“Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.”
“He leaned her back against the tub, setting her head on the edge, then washed her shoulders. “I know I left you once.”She opened her mouth, wanting to say it didn’t matter, it was forgotten. But it wasn’t. “I know I hurt you.”Again, she wanted to argue. But she couldn’t. “I know I said I won’t leave you again, but I also know that’s not enough, and that the only way you’re going to trust that I won’t leave is if I don’t”. He slid the cloth over her arms. “If this ends, Hope, it won’t be me that ends it. I think you know that.”
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“There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won’t happen.”
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“People aren’t just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It’s up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.”
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“I embraced a cloud,but when I soaredit rained.”
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“I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I too have buried my demons today, without knowing what might remain beneath the face of tomorrow.”
“How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die”
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“It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.”
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“A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope.”
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“Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more futile, the more useless, the more irrelevant and incomprehensible an act of rebellion is, the vaster and more potent hope becomes.Hope never makes sense. Hope is weak, unorganized and absurd. Hope, which is always nonviolent, exposes in its powerlessness, the lies, fraud and coercion employed by the state. Hope knows that an injustice visited on our neighbor is an injustice visited on all of us. Hope posits that people are drawn to the good by the good. This is the secret of hope’s power. Hope demands for others what we demand for ourselves. Hope does not separate us from them. Hope sees in our enemy our own face.”
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“A Pause of ThoughtI looked for that which is not, nor can be,And hope deferred made my heart sick in truthBut years must pass before a hope of youthIs resigned utterly.I watched and waited with a steadfast will:And though the object seemed to flee awayThat I so longed for, ever day by dayI watched and waited still.Sometimes I said: This thing shall be no more;My expectation wearies and shall cease;I will resign it now and be at peace:Yet never gave it o’er.Sometimes I said: It is an empty nameI long for; to a name why should I giveThe peace of all the days I have to live?–Yet gave it all the same.Alas, thou foolish one! alike unfitFor healthy joy and salutary pain:Thou knowest the chase useless, and againTurnest to follow it.”
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“My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.”
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“that there are many things that we cant understand. the past. the bad things that happened… and we become afraid. of what might happen in the future. its okay to be afraid. but we have to keep hoping and believeing… to keep hoping and trying our best to be good and do good. even when we’re afraid”
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“I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.”
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