Posts from the ‘Hope / Healing’ Category
Wednesday of Hope – In a World Full of Peril
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.
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Wednesday of Hope – I Believe that People Are Good
It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart
– Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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Wednesday of Hope – Hold Fast to Dreams
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.– Langston Hughes
Wednesday of Hope – Hope Is Not Unrealistic
The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful.
– Paul Hawken
Wednesday of Hope – Nothing is Hopeless
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
– Charles L. Allen
Wednesday of Hope – Courage to Fail
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston Churchill
Wednesday of Hope – Humor and Perspective
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.
– Václav Havel
