QUOTES ABOUT HOPE

Jo, dear, don't hope any more. It won't do any good. I'm sure of that. We won't be miserable, but enjoy being together while we wait. We'll have happy times, for I don't suffer much, and I think the tide will go out easily, if you help me.

But Hope was terrible too,” Mother said, “because it made you believe that you could have things you could never have. Or be someone you could never be. And when a Hope failed to come true, it was worse than if you’d never had hoped at all.

I knew that my eyes weren't reading, but I'd never let myself be convinced that I was pretending, and that I hadn't come in search of reading on an island, I was trying to ignore that God was giving me exactly what I'd ask for and that I– I was saying "no". I was pretending that I didn't notice that I'd constructed a whole hope for whatever was finally happening to me, but that there I was wearing glasses with the open book, as if I loved so much that I could only shout "no". But I also knew that if in that exact moment I didn't take up the calm thread of my previous life, then my balance would never return, and never would my things be recognized by me.

Each of us lives with unseen but profoundly felt battles that are invisible to others. However, within those struggles lies the incredible power of resilience, a force that can help us triumph over any challenge. There is a possibility that the world would misinterpret us, but the perspective of others does not define our strength; instead, it is our refusal to give up. Beauty and tragedy can coexist—just as hope and the human spirit may.