#hop

Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It’s the people who, near or far, know everything that’s wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they’re at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#home #hope #love #people #change

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

A shopping cart flipped upside down forms a cage that I use to protect myself from consumerism. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#consumerism #prison #shopping #change

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#earthy #hope #innocence #love #optimism

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#hope #change

You know" - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- "I don't know that both of us really have to be here...." The slide changed. While hundreds of mathematicians waited with baited breath, the boy beside Kat whispered, "I could go make some calls... check on some things..." "Play some blackjack?" "Well, when in Rome..." "Rome is tomorrow, babe," Kat reminded him. He nodded. "Right. ↗

— Ally Carter

#ally-condie #bishop #carter #hale #heist

Love without hope will not survive. Love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith. ↗

— Toba Beta

#faith #hope #love #power #survive

Horses change lives. They give out young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls, they give us hope. ↗

— Toni Robinson

#hope #horses #young-people #change

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#ellen-degeneres #hope #inspirational #life #change

We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics...they will only grow louder and more dissonant ........... We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. ↗

— Barack Obama

#change #hope #will-i-am #yes-we-can #change