By Category: Hope

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

-Helen Keller

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“Frodo: I can't do this Sam!

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo and it's worth fighting for.”

-Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [movie]

Recommended by Sara.

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“Abre tus alas, deja tus suenos volar.

(open your wings, let your dreams fly)”

-Angel de Amor, Mana

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“Reach down your hand in your pocket
Pull out some hope for me
It's been a long day, always, ain't that right.”

-Long Day, Matchbox 20

Recommended by Shay.

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“It was a crippling thing, this sensation that a huge hole had been punched through my chest, excising my most vital organs and leaving ragged, unhealed gashes around the edges that continued to throb and bleed despite the passage of time. Rationally, I knew my lungs must still be intact, yet I gasped for air and my head spun like my efforts yielded me nothing. My heart must have been beating, too, but I couldn't hear the sound of my pulse in my ears; my hands felt blue with cold. I curled inward, hugging my ribs to hold myself together. I scrambled for my numbness, my denial, but it evaded me.

And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain--the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head--but it was manageable. I could live through it. It didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.”

-New Moon, Stephenie Meyer

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“The sun is gone
But I have a light.”

-Dumb, Nirvana

Recommended by Lauren.

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“You can run from your disappointments you're trying to forget. But it's only when you embrace your past that you truly move forward.”

-Now and Then [movie]

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“Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.”

-Hey You, Pink Floyd

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“In the morning light, all is possible; even becoming a god.”

-Unabridged Journals, Sylvia Plath

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“Courage doesn't always roar. sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'”

-Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey

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“The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation!”

-Rent

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“If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better. ”

-Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

Recommended by Shay.

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“'Tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honor peereth in the meanest habit.”

-The Taming Of The Shrew, William Shakespeare

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“Fade in, start the scene
Enter beautiful girl
But things are not what they seem
As we stand at the edge of the world

"Excuse me, sir,
But I have plans to die tonight
Oh, and you are directly in my way
And I bet you're gonna say it's not right"
My reply:
"Excuse me, miss
But do you have the slightest clue
Of exactly what you just said to me
And exactly who you're talking to?"

She said, "I don't care, you don't even know me"
I said, "I know but I'd like to change that soon, hopefully"
Yeah, we all flirt with the tiniest notion
Of self conclusion in one simplified motion
You see the trick is that you're never supposed to act on it
No matter how unbearable this misery gets

"You make it sound so easy to be alive
But tell me, how am I supposed to seize this day
When everything inside me has died?"
My reply:
"Trust me, girl
I know your legs are pleading to leap
But I offer you this easy choice-
Instead of dying, living with me"

She said, "Are you crazy? You don't even know me."
I said, "I know, but I'd like to change that soon hopefully"
Yeah, we all flirt with the tiniest notion
Of self conclusion in one simplified motion
You see the trick is that you're never supposed to act on it
No matter how unbearable this misery gets

I would be lying if I said that things would never get rough
And all this cliche motivation, it could never be enough
I could stand here all night trying to convince you
But what good would that do?
My offer stands, and you must choose

"All right, you win, but I only give you one night
To prove yourself to be better than my attempt at flight
I swear to god if you hurt me I will leap
I will toss myself from these very cliffs
And you'll never see it coming"
"Settle, precious, I know what you're going through
Just ten minutes before you got here I was gonna jump too"

Yeah we all flirt with the tiniest notion
Of self conclusion in one simplified motion
You see the trick is that you're never supposed act on it
No matter how unbearable this misery gets”

-Self-Conclusion, The Spill Canvas

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“When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see
my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.”

-Rabindrath Tagore

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“For I dipped into the Future, far as
human eye could see;
Saw the vision of the world, and all
the wonder that would be.”

-Locksley Hall, Lord Alfred Tennyson

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“The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.”

-Laurens Van du Post

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“When we first started out I had a really big issue and a lot of my loved ones had a really big issue with the fact that I was totally in pain up there and there was a time when I tried to hurt myself off stage, but I got over that. Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself. Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person and I think that that is going to be a lot of what the next record is about, not to plug it or anything. Like, it's going to talk about dying and coming back to become what you totally want to become. We are all becoming what we want to become.”

-Gerard Way

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“So if you care to find me, look to the western sky
As someone told me lately: 'Everyone deserves the chance to fly'
And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free -
To those who'd ground me, take a message back from me
Tell them how I am defying gravity, I'm flying high, defying gravity.”

-Defying Gravity, Wicked

Recommended by Shay.

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

-Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde

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“Between the tides and double wides, she'd always stop to dream.
For sometimes, it's the quiet ones who grow up to scream.”

-Beth Woodson

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