What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Athlete - The Unknown
Lift your head up
Untie the knot
My little sunshine
Hope is never lightyears away
Leaders, lovers come and go
Outside forces you can’t control
Oh I see you smiling at the unknown
Oh I see you smiling at the unknown
Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there’s enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, “It doesn’t look good at all. Doesn’t look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever.” That’s hope. I’m a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope.
Cornel West
You see, there are two different types of hope in the world. One is hoping for something, and the other is hoping in someone.
One day, everything we hope for will eventually disappoint us. Every circumstance, every situation, every relationship, we put our hope in is going to wear out, give out, fall apart, melt down, and go away.
That’s the problem with hoping in something. That’s why the only dependable hope is hope in someone. Or rather, Someone. The entirety of Scripture points to one cross, one man, one God—not because He gives us everything we’re hoping for but because He is the One in whom we put our hope.
Pete Wilson (Plan B)
Hope is the fuel that the human heart runs on. A car crash or a diving accident can paralyze a body, but the death of hope paralyzes the spirit.
John Ortberg (via followandreblog)
As for me, I will always have hope, I will praise you more and more.
Psalm 71:14 (via daily-bible)
