#hope

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope. ↗

— George Eliot

#knowledge #memory #poverty #work #poverty

It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#hope #human-rights #hunger #inequality #injustice

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves. ↗

— Martin Buber

#hope #insignt #recovery #redemption #recovery

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#lies #lust #lust

[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#eyes #grief #hope #hopelessness #light

One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#hopelessness

My eyes trail from his hand to the tattoo written in small script across his forearm. Hopeless ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#sky #hopelessness

Dean Holder? Messy brown hair? Smoldering blue eyes? A temper straight out of Fight Club? ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#hopelessness

Does not-your boyfriend realize I'm Mormon?" I nod. "It turns out, Holder doesn't have an issue with Mormons at all. He just has an issue with assholes. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#holder #sky #hopelessness

Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#hopelessness