#hope

When we feel like giving up, like we are beyond help, we must remember that we are never beyond hope. Holding on to hope has always motivated me to keep trying. I have found this hope by connecting with others. I’ve found it not only in individuals who have dealt with eating disorders but also in people who have battled addictions and those who have survived abuse, cancer, and broken hearts. I have found much-needed hope in my passions and dreams for the future. I’ve found it in prayer. Real hope combined with real actions has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through. In other words, sitting around and simply hoping that things will change won’t pick you up after a fall. Hope only gives you strength when you use it as a tool to move forward. Taking real action with a hopeful mind will pull you off the ground that eighth time and beyond. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#eating-disorder #hope #recovery #change

Take a chance..., change a 'NO' to a 'YES'today. ↗

— M. Howson

#inspirational #life #change

Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#fear #hope #peace #reading #sex

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#hope #death

Even in the grave, all is not lost. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#hopelessness #death

People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them. ↗

— Tite Kubo

#humor #death

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ↗

— Anne Frank

#build #confusion #consisting #death #everything

Bursts of hope make despair harder to live with. ↗

— Bethany Griffin

#hope #death

One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#hope #death

God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning. Surely, while we live we are not lost. Oh Janos, Janos my brother! Surely we are not lost--while we live. ↗

— John Hepworth

#death #fiction #hope #last-lines #the-long-green-shore