Hope

"When you take an action to improve humanity, you are happy."

"When you take an action with love, there is always happiness."

"Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception."

"Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception."

"Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision."

"A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success."

"A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization."

"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."

"Happiness is the fragrance, not the fruit of an action."

"Hope lies in action"

"Our audacity must be rooted in our humility."

"You’ll find a way. You’ll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can’t, you’ll have friends who will."

"What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn the, that it could never be Eden?"

"We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way."

"When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come."

"Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this"One child said, "The misuse of power is the root of all evil"Alice said, "Well..."Another child said, "There is no justice on the earth"Alice said, "Well..."Another child said, "We are all alone in the world"Alice said, "Well..."Another child said, "The greatest depth of our loss is the beginning of true freedom"Alice said, "Well..."Another child said, "The disposal of human waste is the responsibility of the brokenhearted"These were all phrases Alice had put on the chalkboard after other field trips. It occurred to Alice, hearing these phrases now, that she might have attempted to do too much with a class of fourth graders. She was willing to admit to some excesses. Alice said, "Just listen."

"We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in."

"At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in it's own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky."

"Love is stronger than both fear and hope - if you can love the natural beauty around you, the amazing gifts and skills we have, the fact that you are alive to experience life, each moment that you have, and love yourself and those around you just as they are, then there is no need to be owned by fear, or even hope, you just live the best you can, being the truth of that love that you are being, representing the stream of consciousness experiencing itself, always knowing that you will someday return to it again, and flow as part of it infinitely on."

"After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself."