#hop

I’d never get over you regardless of what happened to you. You’re not something I want to get over no matter where I am in my life. ↗

— Holly Hood

#love #perfectly-hopeless #life

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#laugh #laugh

Hope,... which whispered from Pandora's box after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion... It's a law of motion, a fact of physics..., no different from the stages of white dwarves and red giants. Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yardstick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years. ↗

— Ian Caldwell

#time #science

I used to think, that when my old inner demons started creeping back into my life, that it was a sign of failure or moral weakness. But the saints have shown me that part of the human condition is to struggle with the same sins and suffering over and over again. Once I accepted the fact that I’d probably always have to be on guard against spiritual attacks related to food and my weight, I began to really recover. ↗

— Kate Wicker

#cross #eating-disorder #faith #fortitude #god

In life there are good and bad situations. But when you are down in the valley looking up at the mountain, sometimes you realize that you can see the stars a little clearer. You realize what's truly important and you know exactly what must be done to keep it just like it is. ↗

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#inspirational #love #inspirational

With every mistake, we must surely be learning. ↗

— George Harrison

#irony #mistakes

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up. ↗

— Courtney Summers

#mistake #mistakes

Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower. ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#life #life

Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept, not a spiritual practice. Hope, I began to realize, was not a state of life. It was at best a gift of life. ↗

— Joan D. Chittister

#struggle #suffering #life

Hope abides; therefore I abide. Countless frustrations have not cowed me. I am still alive, vibrant with life. The black cloud will disappear, The morning sun will appear once again In all its supernal glory. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#inspirational #positive-thinking #inspirational