#hope

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up. ↗

— Jefferson Smith

#fantasy #helplessness #hope #persistence #surrender

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever. ↗

— Amy Tan

#teaching

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. ↗

— Aeschylus

#hope #life #reason #dreams

There are times in which one must learn to give up... ↗

— Ashita no Ousama

#easy #hard #hope #jealous #manga

Heaven is freakin' not ready for me!" - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman ↗

— Deana J. Driver

#cancer #cancer-survivors #hope #inspirational #love-story

You're actually each other's wingman. You never leave your partner vulnerable." - Graham Warner, husband of fun-loving seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner ↗

— Deana J. Driver

#cancer #cancer-survivors #hope #humourosly-inspirational #inspirational

May hope rise within you. May peace wash over you. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#healing #hope #inner-gifts #inspiration #peace

Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#inspirational #inspirational

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#endurance #hatred #hope #injustice #life

I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we always let go. But after we bobbed to the surface, we'd climb out of the pool, clamber up the high-dive ladder, clasp hands, and do it again. We're swimming separately now. I get that. Maybe it's just what you have to do to keep above water. But who knows? Maybe one day, we'll climb out, grab hands, and jumo again. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#growing-up #hopeful #reality-of-life #friendship