- “Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don’t fall for the trap of dream killers” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “This concept of “Life is not supporting me”, is like “My breathing is not letting me breathe”! It is like, “My eyes show some parts as dark”. Arrey, even you recognizing some parts are dark is because your eyes are functioning! That is enough proof that your eyes are functioning! So, if you feel you want to be a billionaire, and you are denied entry into the Billionaires’ Club, and it is not happening, be informed, the very concept revealed to you that you can become billionaire is enough proof life is supporting you! Only when you understand the tons and tons of ways life is supporting you, you will also decide to say “YES” to life. As long as you think life is denying you what you want, life is keeping you away from what you want, you will also start saying “NO” to life.” ― Paramahamsa Nithyananda
- “It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be, with no effort or trying and slowly we found each other’s hands in the dark. No chains or promises, just a simple sign of hopethat things will go on and get betterand that things and people and views are still out there, yet to be found.” ― Charlotte Eriksson
- “Revealing aspects of the mystery of being human is life’s inexhaustible research. Through the adventures of art, we find the meaning of our lives.” ― Ashley Bryan, Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace
- “He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.” ― Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
- “Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.” ― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
- “Positive thoughts, positive life.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. Maya Angelou
- “God whispered, “You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn’t you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “Whether sunrise or sunset, it heralds a new opportunity to dream…” ― Virginia Alison
- “Don’t hope you will receive help from the words of life because they all bring you to death.” ― Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
- “Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will grieve not, rather findStrength in what remains behind;In the primal sympathyWhich having been must ever be…” ― William Wordsworth
- Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment. Martin Luther King Jr
- “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.” ― Helen Keller
- “God is still in control every circumstance.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.” ― Criss Jami, Healology
- “What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
- “I am, and always will be, the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.” ― Eleventh Doctor
- “We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.” ― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
- “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” ― J.K. Rowling
- “I feelSomething’s happeningFor meBehind my backAnd I hopeIt’s loveBecause it’sThe only thingI needIn this worldTo be well” ― Jazalyn, Rose: Future Heart
- “You ought to mediate on the Scriptures daily.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “I would like [my readers] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read [my] stories. I’d like them to feel that this was an experience that made things better for them and an experience that gave them hope. I think that the kind of things that we talk about at this conference — fantasy very much so, science fiction, and even horror — the message that we’re sending is the reverse of the message sent by what is called “realistic fiction.” (I happen to think that realistic fiction is not, in fact, realistic, but that’s a side issue.) And what we are saying is that it doesn’t have to be like this: things can be different. Our society can be changed. Maybe it’s worse, maybe it’s better. Maybe it’s a higher civilization, maybe it’s a barbaric civilization. But it doesn’t have to be the way it is now. Things can change. And we’re also saying things can change for you in your life. Look at the difference between Severian the apprentice and Severian the Autarch [in The Book of the New Sun], for example. The difference beteween Silk as an augur and Silk as calde [in The Book of the Long Sun]. You see?We don’t always have to be this. There can be something else. We can stop doing the thing that we’re doing. Moms Mabley had a great line in some movie or other — she said, “You keep on doing what you been doing and you’re gonna keep on gettin’ what you been gettin’.” And we don’t have to keep on doing what we’ve been doing. We can do something else if we don’t like what we’re gettin’. I think a lot of the purpose of fiction ought to be to tell people that.” ― Gene Wolfe
- “In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.” ― N.K. Jemisin
- “If our strength in learning the arts is not turned to weakness, that is, in coming down along side to console and comfort, attending the infirm, the poor, the needy and the elderly, then we have pathetically failed with our true art, the art of humanity–of life. If this is so, all of our studies have been, like a warped, pitiless, cruel pile of cold rusty scrap metal on a gray drizzly day, in vain. If this lesson is too tough for us, we must remember that it is Jesus’ preferred way. He comes along side the sick, the feeble, the downtrodden, even the most wretched, disgusting and perverse. As He hung upon that splintˊry red cross and imparts His Spirit to all who seek Him, no, not even the fiery excelsior angels of the Highest Courts of Heaven have an excuse not to unflinchingly obey the clarion call of Him who beckons us to reach out and help lift from the mud those who cannot get up.(Martial Arts on Noah’s Ark)” ― douglas laurent
- “Don’t strive to be beautiful from the outside, instead, strive to be beautiful from the inside, Surface beauty will fade through time & age, beauty from the heart, however, never will!” ― Emily Eaton (Me)
- “If the cosmos is a grand ocean, we are all part of it. We are one with the ocean, not individual drops in the ocean. When we think of ourselves as individual drops, we feel separate in our boundary and in our feelings. This is what is called ego.” ― Paramahamsa Nithyananda
- “Death is more merciful than hope itself! There is nothing surprising in this, for death is divinely appointed, while hope is the creation of human folly. Both end in frustration. Am I destined to lead a life of endless frustration?-(The Beginning and the End)” ― Naguib Mahfouz, بداية ونهاية
- “Let there be room left in your heart for the unimaginable ~ serendipity has a way of showing itself just when you feel like giving up.” ― Nikki Rowe
- “You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.” ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”