Quotes about Hope

She worked the thread through the flowered cloth as if she were sewing the torn ends of her life together.

His room smelled of cooked grease, Lysol, and age, but his face believed the freshness of his words, and I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times.

Nothing can dim.the light which shines within us

It is sunrise, with Hope its arrogant rider.

Midwives and winding sheets know birthing is hard and dying is mean and living's a trial in between. Why do we journey, muttering like rumors among the stars? Is a dimension lost? Is it love?

I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what's happening now instead of what's going to happen tomorrow.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.1 —II TIMOTHY 1:7

I don't think love has to hurt as much as it did in the past. I don't think we have to allow love to hurt us as much as it has. We certainly don't have to let it destroy us.

Don't give up hope. It took many of us twenty years or more to acquire these protective behaviors we umbrella with the word codependency. It may take as much time as that to let go of them.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect.

I've learned I can take care of myself, and what I can't do, God will do for me. —Al-Anon member