Words for Thought - Hope

In light of recent events in the tri-state area and discord about the presidential election outcome my topic for the week is Hope.

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”

-          John Lennon

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

-          Bil Keane

“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

“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.”

-          J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”

-          Alfred Tennyson

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

-          Martin Luther King Jr.

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

-          Barack Obama

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

-          Epicurus

“Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.”

-          Frances Hodgson Burnett