stuff tagged with "hope"

Look to this day For it is life, the very best of life. In its brief course Lie all the truths and realities of your existence. The joy of growth, The glory of action, The splendour of beauty Are but experiences of time. For yesterday is but a memory And tomorrow is only a vision But today if well-lived, Makes every yesterday a memory of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope Look well therefore to this day; Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn!

— Kalidasa

What if changing the world looked more like care than like war?

— Rebecca Solnit

For those who have broken through to joy, who let others drink from it, as they carry on through their pain. May we find each other.

— Mark Nepo

I have been through winters before and I have always, eventually, found my way back to spring. The springs didn't come because I forced them or fixed myself or followed a twelve-step program. They came because seasons end. They came because the resting period did its hidden work. They came because, whether I knew it or not, I was gathering in the dark.

— Joan Westenberg