If you knew

"If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?"

~ Robert Brault

Hope

“Hope is the dream of a soul awake.”

~French Proverb

Listen

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

~Kalidasa

We all borrow will

‎"We all borrow will; from our parents as we grow up, from coaches or mentors, even from stars and famous personages with whom we connect in less immediate ways. It is our will that is the substance of our life. When we lose it, we are on a path to a kind of death, since will is the soil from which hope arises."

- Paul Hawken

And the Attitude

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

~Alan Watts

Love

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

~Maya Angelou

We were not hoping

"We were not hoping for happiness –
And yet we were not prepared for unhappiness."

~Viktor E. Frankl

The Quest stands

The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true.

~Galadriel, The Lord of the Rings

All our hopes

All our hopes now lie with two little hobbits, somewhere in the wilderness.

~Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings

The grand essentials

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

-- Joseph Addison

All hope

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

~Dante Alighieri

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

~Mignon McLaughlin,

Each day

Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.

~Sanskrit poem

Do that which

Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

~Emerson

Not knowing

Not knowing
when the dawn will come,
I open every door.


~Emily Dickinson

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