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arfie 10/21/2016

I been despairing today. Feels like I oughta give into it. There have been quite allot of intense events running through my recent months. Despair happens. It feels like a central moral to my life story to process the hard stuff well so you won't have to do it over again later.

Also feels like I should balance the despair with hopeful thoughts. Been surfing for hope quotes. My fave of the surf:

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. ~Elie Wiesel

Anybody else? Don't accuse me of experting, but I honestly believe we can't have too much hope in the world.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. Elie Wiesel
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_hope.html

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_hope.html

mujicaptsd 10/21/2016

Aw, arfie. you gave me so much joy in the last week chatting about hopes for my future retirement back in Latin America where I grew up. I really hope for you in this despair. Here's a quote for you from my favorite Spanish author, philosopher Miguel de Unamuno. Hope it hits the spot:

" Nunca DESESPERES, aún estando en las mas sombrías aflicciones, pues de las NUBES NEGRAS cae agua limpia y fecundante." (Miguel de Unamuno)

For those not Spanish speaking, it says something like "never despair even in the darkest suffering because it is from black clouds that cleansing and nurturing waters come."

2magicman 10/21/2016

Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Scott

Pag.mars 10/21/2016

"How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire
Looked all over for this haha. Always here if you need somebody to talk to about what's going on:)

2magicman 10/21/2016

Hope is never violent. Hope is how mericalls happen.

"Shawn Hornbeck"

Scott

Doo 10/22/2016

One of my all time favorite hope quotes:

“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

“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”
― C. JoyBell C.

silverlight 10/22/2016

Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams. ~S.A. Sachs

Hope is a roving gypsy
With laughter on her tongue,
And the blue sky and sunshine
Alone, can keep her young;
And year by year she lingers
Under a budding tree...
~Dora Read Goodale, "The Chorus," in Country Life in America: A Magazine for the Home-maker, the Vacation-seeker, the Gardener, the Farmer, the Nature-teacher, the Naturalist, April 1902

Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles

Hope is grief's best music. ~Author unknown

Hope peers beyond the sunset gate,
And sees heaven ope, with clearest eye;
In Sorrow's sombre vale we wait,
Till Love translates us to the sky...
~Luther G. Riggs, "Hope and Fear," c.1884

I still believe in some faraway place where it's all okay. ~Terri Guillemets, "Beyond the horizon," 1989

Much Peace and Hope to You,Arfie.

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