QUOTES ABOUT HOPE

They die, I live. It's the way of the world, the way it's always been. I used to think that some good would come of my stories, that someone might be moved to act because of what I'd reported. I'm not sure I believe that anymore. One place improves, another falls apart. The map keeps changing; it's impossible to keep up. No matter how well I write, how truthful my tales, I can't do anything to save the lives of the children here, now.

In the grasp of sorrow, it can feel as though we are walking through endless shadows, each step heavier than the last. Yet even in the depths, a whisper of hope lingers, gently stirring beneath the weight. Perhaps healing begins in the smallest of moments, when we allow ourselves to sense the tender kindness of our own heart, willing us forward despite the darkness.

I hope Andy is down there.
I hope I can make it across the border.
I hope to see my friend and shake his hand.
I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.
I hope.

Believing that it is in the human nature to seek truth more than it seeks hope and alleviation, because a few individuals were staunch truth-seekers, is to believe that, because parrots can speak, it is in the very nature of birds to speak in human language!

Compared to the size of the universe we are small and insignificant, but you’ve got to keep it in perspective. We’re lucky really, I mean think of the odds of you existing at all. The universe went through a billion acts of chance that led to you being conceived, millions of chemical reactions occurred just to make you, you. Think of all the potential people that could have been but didn’t get the chance. Look around. The mere fact that the universe is so large and yet we are able to be here like we are is amazing. We are unlike any other planet or species in the universe. Don’t look at it all and think we’re insignificant. We’re the equivalent of someone finding a diamond the size of a grain of sand on a beach the size of Mars. We are small, but we ARE significant.