Hope

"Awareness about lack of knowledge is the most useful knowledge."

"... How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair..."

"You did anything to bury me, but you forgot that I was a seed."

"When the words have been said and the music has been played, feelings are the only form of art which will remain to reign. (Soar)"

"I am a convinced believer that nothing is "as it is", but it is something that "can become", or we can make out of, if we put faith in our inner resources and feelings to bring the right impetus to the driving wheels of our lives’ mechanism. (Soar)"

"Falling in desire with truth and hope is enhancing our soul with a precious love..."

"this life has been a landscape of painand still,flowersbloom in it."

"the time will come, my dearwhen I will hold you closeand all will beright againin the world."

"He who has no dreams has no hope and thus lives in a hell of his own making - rjs"

"The darkest of all hells resides in ones mind"

"To be human, is to be able to love the unlovable, and hope when things appear hopeless"

"Release your past into the universe and embrace your future with opened arms."

"The nature of God's plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it is glorious from above, if you allow yourself the perspective."

"Hope is when we have a beautiful vision of something and a positive emotion to go along with it. When our world comes crashing down, when we are trapped in a deep, dark, despairing hopelessness, we need a bigger perspective. Hope comes when we reflect on all that we hold dearand true, when we acknowledge a higher power, when we acknowledge God in our lives and begin to see what He has planned for our lives."

"I've never been more hopeful about our future. I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope. I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."

"The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's decision to get engaged while in prison as his "positive statement that life will go on," his affirmation of the power of love."

"Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man."

"Laugh as if it's funny, embrace as if it's love, and smile anyway."

"When the sun of consciousness first shone upon me, behold a miracle! The stock of my young life which had perished, steeped in the waters of knowledge grew again, budded again, was sweet again with the blossoms of childhood. Down in the depths of my being, I cried, ‘it is good to be alive!’ I held out two trembling hands to life, and in vain silence would impose dumbness upon me henceforth! The world to which I awoke was still mysterious; but there was hope and love and God in it, and nothing else mattered. Is it not possible that our entrance into heaven may be like this experience of mine?"

"Eritrean people are strong and caring. And despite all that we had been through we were brimming with optimism. Our country was on the verge of huge change."