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Category: Hope / Healing
Helen Keller on Pessimism
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. – Helen Keller
We Create Hope
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. – Lin Yutang
So How Do You See It?
It’s a beautiful world to see, Or it’s dismal in every zone, The thing it must be in its gloom or its gleam Depends on yourself alone. – Anonymous
Thoughts on Hope – 16
At the bottom of the heart of every human being there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered and witnessed, that is good and not evil will be done to her. It is this… Continue Reading “Thoughts on Hope – 16”
Thoughts on Hope – 15
Hope has two beautiful daughters – their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. – St. Augustine
Thoughts on Hope – 14
[The one] who has health, has hope. And [the one] who has hope, has everything. – Arab Proverb
Thoughts on Hope – 13
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Thoughts on Hope – 12
Prayer is hope’s breathing. When we stop praying, we stop hoping. – Pedro Casaldaliga
Thoughts on Hope – 11
Everything can be taken from us but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. – Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Thoughts on Hope – 10
Hope is essential to generate the needed warm temperature and loving atmospher required to ensure that the forces of cynicism, greed and violence do not suck the life out of the divine dream a-birthing in you. – Edward Hays
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