Hope

"... The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patient and ‘saintlike’ to their children. They should truly love their children. And the children will share this love! For the bad attitude of the children, says father Porphyrios, the ones who are usually responsible for it are their parents themselves. The parents don’t help their children by lecturing them and repeating to them ‘advices’, or by making them obeying strict rules in order to impose discipline. If the parents do not become ‘saints’ and truly love their children and if they don’t struggle for it, then they make a huge mistake. With their wrong and/or negative attitude the parents convey to their children their negative feelings. Then their children become reactive and insecure not only to their home, but to the society as well..."

"Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope."

"Teach your children that a person is more valuable than any treasure found on this earth, teach them to love, teach them to sing, and dance, teach them to be courageous, and tell them they will be victorious on anything they put their heart and mind to, teach them honesty, and to never give up hope."

"Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth."

"For Every Child We Teach To Cherish Learning, A Universe Is Born."

"You two are children almost grown. Your hearts have not hardened to the realities of the world. Your dreams have not fallen through your fingers. You still know hope."

"The world doesn't owe you anything because you're in it, but you owe yourself the world because it is in you."

"Our children belong to God. We're only given them on loan from heaven. Sometimes God calls them home sooner tan we expected."

"The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair."

"For me, it’s not just about blessing my generation, I've done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless."

"Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things."

"Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive."

"Tender Ember... Barred and brandedto be forever unloved I was a tender emberseeking solace from above..."

"The answer to prayers is for the appointed time. God’s honour is at stake to response to the supplications of His Children in His timing."

"My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even more so to remember that the men, women, and children all involved in and affected by this era were not just statistics: they were people just like we are, with the same hopes, dreams, and very imminent fears."

"She kept hoping something would change, but she knew she'd lost him to a world she could never be part of. So instead she pretended. Pretended to be strong. Pretended everything was alright. Pretended for Michael, for herself, but most of all for Willow. Because Willow loved Michael, and he, her – that much was obvious"

"Preparation doesn't assures victory, it assures confidence."

"Every year, we have 365 chances to begin a new lifetime."

"Our infinitesimal hopes should survive longer than our vast disappointments"

"Everyday can be extraordinary And ripe,Like a flower burst,If the will is there."