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Words of Hope
(Good Housekeeping/December 2001)
"Hope" is the thing with
feathers-
That perches in the soul-
And sings the tune without words-
And never stops-at all...
Emily Dickinson
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Lord, make me an instrument of
Your peace.
Where there is hatred let me
sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
and
Where there is sadness, joy.
-St. Francis of Assisi |
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear
but around in awareness.
-James Thurber
Hold on to what is good
even if it is a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe
even if it is a tree which stands by
itself.
Hold on to what you must do
even if it is a long way from here.
Hold on to life
even when it is easier letting go.
Hold on to my hand
even when I have gone away from you.
-Native American Prayer
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When I despair, I remember that
through history the way of truth has
always won. There have been
tyrants and murderers and for a
time they seem invincible,
but in the end, they always
fall-think of it, always.
_Mahatma Gandhi |
In three words I can sum up
everything I've learned about life:
It goes on. -Robert Frost
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Sorrow comes in great
waves...but it rolls over us,
and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And
we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it
passes and we remain.
-attributed to Henry James |
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