All Quotes By Tag: Hope

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you’ve held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.”

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”