13 Quotes About Hope
Not optimism — something sturdier. These quotes are about the disciplined refusal to give up on a future you cannot yet see.
“When doubt haunts me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to the Bhagavad Gita and find a verse to comfort me.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“Your heart is weighed on the scale against the feather of Maat. May it be found as light.”
“I am one whose heart is light. I have done what is loved by gods and men.”
“Today, victory over yourself. Yesterday, victory over a lesser opponent. Tomorrow, victory over a greater one.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”
“A poet is someone who can pour Light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy mouth.”
“O God, if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not from me Thine eternal beauty.”
“When you understand the meaning of impermanence, all clinging falls away. When clinging falls away, the heart is light. When the heart is light, the mind is free.”
“However long the night, the dawn will break.”
“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”
“We do not dislike everything that shines, but we do prefer a pensive lustre to a shallow brilliance — a murky light that, whether in a stone or an artifact, bespeaks a sheen of antiquity.”