“When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.”
Hopeful feeling
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“I hope you find what you're looking for.”
“Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out.”
“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.”
“Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.”
“Never be afraid to dream.”
“I begged my mom for a beat machine, she spent a crazy amount of money - so there were no more Christmases, no more basketball camps, no more birthday gifts. I always knew that's what I wanted to do.”
“The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope”
“If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.”
“Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile”
“I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
“We are free to change the world and start something new in it.”
“Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.”
“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.”
“Even if we're in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time. Hopelessness is possible only because we do hope that some good, loving someone could come. If that's what Heidegger meant, then I agree with him.”
“Within the child lies the fate of the future.”
“Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.”
“For all of us, we put our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He's in our boat. And when those storms come and those waves (of life) come, He's in the boat with us.”
“In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions.”
“Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.”