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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

Thoughts on Hope – 9

It was a chilly, overcast day when the horseman spied the little sparrow lying on its back in the middle of the road. Reining in his mount, he looked down and inquired of the fragile creature, “Why are you lying upside down like that?”… Continue Reading “Thoughts on Hope – 9”

Thoughts on Hope – 8

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. – I have seen this quote attributed to several people, but I believe it is by Vaclav Havel

Thoughts on Hope – 7

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. – Helen Keller

Thoughts on Hope – 6

The case for hope has never rested on provable facts or rational assessment. Hope by its very nature is independent of the apparatus of logic. – Norman Cousins

Thoughts on Hope – 5

And every day, no matter how bitter it be, I will say: “From tomorrow on, I shall be sad.” Not today. – A young Jewish child of the holocaust