Famous Quotes

You are in your own prison.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The power of prayer is the purity of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Praying is a realm of possibilities.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What God has planned for us is far better than what we desire to behold.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to hope less than to be hopeless.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

I sometimes wondered why I even answered the phone, but I guess I always had the hope that it would be someone else, some other way of life calling for me.

~ Catherine Lacey

May the Good Lord always watch over you and fill your days with hope.

~ Latika Teotia

Hope-it was a fire that lit the soul, a belief in both the impossible and in everything imaginable, the budding anticipation of joy, waiting with each breath.

~ Kate Breslin

I curse the heavens for letting the stars fall, I curse myself for not being there to catch them.

~ Cody Edward Lee Miller

Fear is the greatest prison.Hope is the greatest freedom.

~ Filipe De Lima Coelho

I guess I think differently than most folks. I think the reason the world is a mystical, enchanting place, is because of the cycle of life. My body will decompose, but maybe some little element of it will be transformed into a particle of dirt, over years and years,and then a glorious flower will be nurtured by this particle of dirt. Then this flower will nourish a random bumblebee, who in turn will be eaten by a raven. So, in some future life, I'll be able to fly. I look forward to that. I've always admired the freedom of birds.

~ E. M. Crane

When you feel unsatisfied in your life, you must immediately take action to change your perspective, thoughts, and activity. If you stay longer than necessary in your unhappy state you will find yourself sinking deeper and deeper into misery. Fortunately, no matter how deep you fall into dissatisfaction you will always be able to change your life for the better through positive action.

~ Avina Celeste

So I was a stone in the sea. Gravity gave up on keeping me above the surface. I did not try to swim and so I sank to the bottom with no will to turn back. ”I’m tired,” I told him. ”I’m done”.But he wouldn’t let me and he held me up even on his hardest days and he was a lighthouse when all I saw was darkness.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I like who I am when I'm with her. And I hope that she feels the same way. If she doesn't, we shouldn't be together, no matter how I feel about it.

~ Jennifer Linsky

But the Count hadn’t the temperament for revenge; he hadn’t the imagination for epics; and he certainly hadn’t the fanciful ego to dram of empires restored. No. His model for mastering his circumstances would be a different sort of captive altogether: an Anglican washed ashore. Like Robinson Crusoe stranded on the Isle of Despair, the count would maintain his resolve by committing to the business of practicalities. Having dispensed with dreams of quick discovery, the world’s Crusoes seek shelter and a source of fresh water; they teach themselves to make fire from flint; they study their island’s topography, it’s climate, its flora and fauna, all the while keeping their eyes trained for sails on the horizon and footprints in the sand.

~ Amor Towles

At the end of the night awaits the white morning: showered in sunlight.

~ Gerrit Achterberg

Sometimes, however, there is more than hope.Sometimes there is reason.

~ Elizabeth Haydon

Please write an ending where the Martians are defeated. Don't take away your readers' hope.

~ Félix J. Palma

If you only knew how many sentences I have withheld in hopes that I will be allowed to speak them into your heart one day.

~ Alfa H

How is it that hearts hold on to memories with the strength of hope and possibilities.

~ Alfa H

Something about Tilo’s new home reminded Musa of the story of Mumtaz Afzal Malik, the young taxi driver whom Amrik Singh had killed, whose body had been recovered from a field and delivered to his family with earth in his clenched fists and mustard flowers growing through his fingers. That story had always stayed with Musa – perhaps because of the way hope and grief were woven together in it, so tightly, so inextricably.

~ Arundhati Roy

When the days become darkThe nights become coldAnd all there is, is an empty soulBelieve you can escape your plightEven when relief is out of sightDon't you dare give up the fightDon't you dare

~ Evy Michaels

Never declare Fate your enemy; she does not take lightly declarations of war. Declare your friendship to her instead, and smile in hope of better days.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You must believe in yourself, otherwise we are all lost to darkness

~ Robert Ian Wilson

The glass is half full, the glass is half empty or nothing is in the glass, these are the metaphorical situations created by our mind to give ourselves hope, which is to expect something better in the future or to hold on to what we have in hand. Success is always about playing these situations to perfection. The level of our play will be proportionate to the level of hope, which again is a laborious form of a wish. A wish is belief in miracles but a hope is working to get due returns against the invested efforts.

~ Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

It’s a picture of hope because the kid without his legs? The one burned and cut and deathly pale? He lived.And he’s going to be fine.

~ Jeff Bauman

Let's gather the world in a game of love with the goal of kicking our tears past Eternity & she'll kick the earth into humanity.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Hope because the Universe hears you. Hope because the Universe works for you. Hope because the Universe speaks to you. Hope because the Universe will finish what it began in you.

~ Drishti Bablani

Do not lose heart. Hang on to hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In every circumstance, keep calm.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Some things cannot be fixed; they can only be carried. Grief like yours, love like yours, can only be carried.Survival in grief, even eventually building a new life alongside grief, comes with the willingness to bear witness, both to yourself and to the others who find themselves inside this life they didn’t see coming. Together, we create real hope for ourselves,and for one another. We need each other to survive.I wish this for you: to find the people you belong with, the ones who will see your pain, companion you, hold you close,even as the heavy lifting of grief is yours alone. As hard as they may seem to find at times, your community is out there. Lookfor them. Collect them. Knit them into a vast flotilla of light that can hold you.

~ Megan Devine

What we all share in common - the real reason for this book - is a desire to love better. To love ourselves in the midst of great pain, and to love another when the pain of this life grows too large for one person to hold. This book offers the skills needed to make that kind of love a reality.

~ Megan Devine

The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this world that you can't be cheered out of. You don't need solutions. You don't need to move on from your grief. You need someone to see your grief, to acknowledge it. You need someone to hold your hands while you stand there in blinking horror, staring at the hole that was your life. Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.

~ Megan Devine

Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal. It isn't.

~ Megan Devine

True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward.

~ Megan Devine

Everything will work out... don't give up hope, remain calm.

~ Jonathan Franklin

Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.

~ Megan Devine

When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain.

~ Megan Devine

But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may dwindle too much and decline altogether into worthless thoughts.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge