"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence." Lin Yutang
"Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. " Arundhati Roy
"I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
"All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope." Henry Nouwen
"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream." Martin Luther King Jr.
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death." Robert Fulghum
"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow."
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you've got my favorite word in my favorite color.....my new favorite post.
hope = beauty
I LOVE YOU>
I click on your blog today and read about HOPE. The song you have playing immediately made me cry. HOPE.
Beautiful, Carin.
Not only are you a gifted photographer, but you are a gifted writer... and a very intuitive one at that.
Blessings, my friend who I've never met. :-)
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream." Martin Luther King Jr.
love that!
really good...
you grab onto hope...HOPE... i think... is a promise of good to come!
I have found myself thinking of you several times since your announcement of your big life change.....hope is amazing. It works.
love you. love hope.
Hope is all we have sometimes! Love you and your words!
Hope is sitting in the darkness and realizing a friend is sitting beside you. They don't have to do anything. They don't have to say anything. They just ARE...and they ARE near you. And together, you see the first trembling hues of dawn. And you know...you can.
Your dad loves you so...that little tiny word "so" that just upgrades and amplifies the love.
I love the word HOPE.
To me, it's synonymous with the word "optimism".
I looove optimistic people.
And you are soooo one of those people, Carin.
HOPE is also synonymous with the phrase:
"THIS TOO SHALL PASS".
I mantra that phrase to myself through any and all of the rough patches in life...whether it be during a traffic jam...a fight between siblings...or a life altering decision.
This too, shall pass.
I love you.
jc
Carin, not long ago I saw an interview with the "last lecture" guy and his wife...reflecting on the sad but rich journey of his last days. His wife shared a simple but profound lesson she had learned. When asked what she did when alone and forced to think about the struggle she was in--the inevitability of her husband's death--she said when she would slip into moments or moods that threatened to steal from her the joy of the present, she said she would say to herself, sometimes right out loud: "Not helpful...not helpful," and move her mind somewhere else. Holding on to hope can sometimes be just as delicate a grasp..but to fill yourself so full of hope that there is no room for anything other helps...and to sometimes say, "Not helpful...not helpful."
Aspire!
Reach!
Dare!
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