By Category: Hope

“Visions that can change the world trapped inside an ordinary girl
She looks just like me too afraid to dream out loud.”

-Never Give Up, Yolanda Adams

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“There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.”

-Inferno, Dante Alighieri

Recommended by Holly.

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“But what if I'm a mermaid
In these jeans of his with her name still on it
Hey but I don't care
Cause sometimes I said sometimes I hear my voice and it's been
HERE silent all these years.”

-Silent All These Years, Tori Amos

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“Failure is the mother of success.”

-Anonymous

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“The lights that shine through in the darkest moments are the most brilliant.”

-Anonymous

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“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss
it you will land among the stars.”

-Les Brown

Recommended by Mandy.

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“Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice, not something to wish for, but to attain.”

-William Jennings Bryan

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“A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.”

-A Happy Death, Albert Camus

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“All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.”

-Reflections on Life, Alexis Carrel

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“Gaining weight and pulling my head out of the toilet was the most political act I have ever committed.”

-The Body Politic, Abra Fortune Chernik

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“And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you
Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to guide them along
So maybe I'll see you there
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares, and go

Downtown, things'll be great when you're
Downtown, don't wait a minute more
Downtown, everything's waiting for you.”

-Downtown, Petula Clark

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“I gotta tell you, it gets better every day you stay alive
And I'm amazed every day that the sun decides to rise
every minute, every hour, is another chance to change
Life is beautiful & terrible & strange.”

-Take Me Home, Concrete Blond

Recommended by Shay.

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“I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because I am ashamed of how badly I have treated the people I love—of how badly I behaved during my own personal Dark Ages—back before I had a future and someone who cared for me from above. It is like today the sky opened up and only now am I allowed to enter.”

-Shampoo Planet, Douglas Coupland

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“It can't rain all the time.”

-The Crow [movie]

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“One man scorned and covered with scars still strive with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.”

-The Impossible Dream (The Quest), Joe Darion

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“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”

-The Dead Poet's Society [movie]

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“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. ”

-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

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“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.”

-Harvey Fierstein

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“The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

-Kahlil Gibran

Recommended by Sarah.

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“As long as I'm between home and the clinic I do all right. But out in the real world, I feel like prey. I slink around and can feel people looking at me. I feel their eyes boring into me. I feel what they're thinking: Watch her, she could go off anytime. But within the walls of my farmhouse, I climb out of the protective shell, my arms slowly rise like a phoenix, and I dance, wail, fly around the room and then collapse, crying, in front of my mirrors. I start to see in the mirror what it is I really look like, instead of what I was trained from the womb to see. I do not write about it. I do not talk about it. I do not know what I am doing. But just like a baby bird, I am blinking once-sealed eyes and unfolding damp wings. I cannot articulate the past. A part of me knows it's there, lurking, just behind what I can acknowledge, but it is not within sight. And I am keeping it that way. ”

-Sickened, Julie Gregory

Recommended by Shay.

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“It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medical disease in the traditional sense is not helpful here. There is no 'cure'. A pill will not fix it, though it may help. Ditto therapy, ditto food, ditto endless support from family and friends. You fix it yourself. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, and I found myself stronger for doing it. Much stronger.”

-Wasted, Marya Hornbacher

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“Everyone has the potential to do anything they want. It's all the matter of putting that potential energy into kinetic.”

-Richard Hsu

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“The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

-Victor Hugo

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“Some of us fall by the wayside
And some of us soar to the stars
And some of us sail through our troubles
And some have to live with the scars.”

-Circle of Life, Elton John

Recommended by Saraya.

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“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming it.”

-Helen Keller

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