Hope

"A sincere call to the Almighty can change what you may have thought was impossible to change. Never lose hope."

"For us (Muslims) death is an incident: for them (the Europeans), the end."

"And he always checks that he carries three things with him: faith, hope, and love."

"It flashed as a guiding light whilst Duran was lost in his dreams"

"Life isn't fair," comes the voice of Nana. She has told me that a thousand times. "What matters is how you handle it." I'm going to handle it by winning."

"Chase and I are in this for the long haul. I've stood before him and he's stood before me. And this is what it's all come down to: Chase Gartner is my future, my forever. And I, I am his."

"The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence."

"Acceptance is a gift that helps you to skip forward and live in the present. Everyone needs a chance to be fulfilled with acceptance which is the impetus to heal old wounds. Sometimes you meet someone and you can skip forward because of the greeting, the acceptance, and the goodbye. Say hello to a stranger. They will greet you with a smile almost every time."

"Don't force to become the top, but loosen up to be the top...(as in don't try hard when people are before you but be glad... instead of working up your energy for the highest honor)"

"I'm not even going to tell you what I think about what just happened in there. But I know it sucked and I have no idea why you aren't crying right now, but I know your heart hurts, and maybe even your pride. So fuck school. We’re going for ice cream."

"Without discursive thought it is just dharma practice. Hope together with aim obscures. One does not cut through pride by meditatively cultivating the desire for happiness. If there is hope, even the hope for buddhas, it is a negative force. If there is apprehension, even apprehension about hells, it is a negative force."

"It's always wrong to hate but it's never wrong to love."

"Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside."

"I once held a belief that life made sense, that working toward a dream would birth substance. Nothing else mattered. I soon discovered that success is as long-lasting as any of life’s novelties. We’ve all been happy with new things, only to be disappointed later. Dolls and soldiers our parents toiled to give us found their way to pedestals, then to the back of closets. I’d always dreamed of marrying a woman I loved and watching my children grow. I wonder if our lives should be filled with the pursuit of such dreams, those magical hopes interwoven into our story. Our stories are decorative shells for the crabs we really are, both protecting and exposing us to the manic outside."

"For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story."

"...our stories are who we are, where we begin. They connect us, tearing down walls and shattering isolation. For story is where hope begins."

"We can feel isolated and powerless when living with chronic illness, but what if your story begins to bridge the barrier or open a way for someone to connect? What if your story offers a glimmer of hope to someone standing at the edge of desolation? ... What if your story starts the conversation?"

"Let the change begin with your choices this very moment."

"Let us revolt against the nightmare, and work together for a kinder world."

"It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings…Meetings. Beginnings. It's not too late…to believe in them after the fact."