This beautiful flash movie was created to remind you that although adversity takes you through hardship and pain, it can also bring new awareness of the things that give deeper meaning to life. These are the gifts that come hidden in adversity, and they are available to everyone. * Movie credits at bottom of page.

A child's insight is often astonishingly profound as you will see when you read how these children living with cancer view hope. Click the icon and be inspired by their wisdom!

 

Hope Thoughts

"Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them.  We must live by the love of what we will never see.  This is the secret discipline.  It is a refusal to let the creative act be dissolved away in immediate sense experience, and a stubborn commitment to the future of our grandchildren.  Such disciplined love is what has given prophets, revolutionaires and saints the courage to die for the future they envisaged.  They make their own bodies the seed of their highest hope."
~ Ruben Alvez 

"Hope is a waking dream." ~ Aristotle 

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all."  ~ Emily Dickinson

"What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope." ~ George Eliot 

"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the russell of a wing."  ~ Robert Engersoll 

"Our difficulties launch us into new states of consciousness where we are inspired to step out of the reality of our smallest thoughts and step into the limitless freedom of our biggest dreams."  ~ Debbie Ford 

"While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates...  For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness, light persists."
~ Mohandas K.Gandhi 

"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world.  Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." ~ Vaclav Havel

"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." ~  George Iles 

"Hope is the foundation for creativity, inspiration, joy and all those emotions which allow us to transcend ourselves." ~ Verena Kast 

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of suffering."
~ Helen Keller 

"Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope." ~ Robert F. Kennedy 

"Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited -- there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient.  So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory."  ~ Soren Kierkegaard 

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come."  ~ Annie Lamott 

"There are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly." ~ Windred Newman 

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end, may also be the beginning." ~ Ivy Baker Priest

"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light." ~ Theodore Roethke

"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure" ~ Rumi

"What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul."  ~ Schiller 

"From the ashes of your past come the bright stars of your future."  ~ Melvin Lewis Thomas 

"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world." ~ Unknown 

"Patience is the art of hoping.  ~ Vauvenargus 

"Expect to have hope rekindled.  Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways.  The dry seasons in life do not last.  The spring rains will come again.
~ Sarah van Breathnach 

"More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice.  Hope is not a feeling; it is a decision.  And the decision for hope is based on what you believe at the deepest levels - what your most basic convictions are about the world and what the future holds - all based on your faith.  You choose hope, not as a naive wish, but as a choice, with your eyes wide open to the reality of the world - just like the cynics who have not made the decision for hope." ~ Jim Wallis 

"Hope never abandons you; you abandon it."  ~ George Weinberg 

"The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring."  ~ Bern Williams

"Hope is like a road in the country; there never was a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence." ~ Lin Yutang 

 

Hope Stories

Dreams
Hope is the Parent of Faith
Initiation
Johnny
Pain
Sunflower
Virginia's Journey

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