#hope

Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You. ↗

— Juan de la Cruz

#christian #god-s-grace #god-s-love #hope #perseverance

You gotta show kids YOU'RE not scared (even if inside at times you are) and when you show you're not afraid of the "monsters" then they too will stand up even when the lights are off. ↗

— Jill Telford

#hope #inspiration #scared-of-the-dark #change

It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God's love for the individual is displayed by those people who reflect his love in their words and deeds. It ultimately gets understood and accepted by the child in poverty, and through that individual's love for others, the world gets changed. ↗

— Wess Stafford

#hope #love #change

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#hart-s-hope #leadership #change

Just when it seemed my mother couldn’t bear one more needle, one more insane orange pill, my sister, in silence, stood at the end of the bed and slowly rubbed her feet, which were scratchy with hard, yellow skin, and dirt cramped beneath the broken nails, which changed nothing in time except the way my mother was lost in it for a while as if with a kind of relief that doesn’t relieve. And then, with her eyes closed, my mother said the one or two words the living have for gratefulness, which is a kind of forgetting, with a sense of what it means to be alive long enough to love someone. Thank you, she said. As for me, I didn’t care how her voice suddenly seemed low and kind, or what failures and triumphs of the body and spirit brought her to that point— just that it sounded like hope, stupid hope. ↗

— Jason Shinder

#hope #life #love #change

I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too. ↗

— Stephanie Nielson

#blogging #change #hope #life #time

(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.) ↗

— Stanley Cavell

#happiness #hope #humor #marriage #remarriage

You did everything you could, but sometimes all the love in the world from mothers and brothers isn't enough to help pull someone out of their nightmare. We just need to accept that things are what they are, and all the guilt and regret in the world can't change that. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#losing-hope #change

Your guardian angel never, ever stops communicating with you. I feel that at times they should be frustrated with us but they seem to have endless patience and they never ever give up on us. ↗

— Lorna Byrne

#hope #inspiration #love #communication

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless. ↗

— Chester Nimitz

#courage #duty #hope #moral-courage #war