14,384 Quotes About Hope

I’m not sure I ever met an American teacher in Korea that hadn’t volunteered at an orphanage at least once—even our resident idiot could be surprisingly decent on occasion—but I’ve also visited foreign countries where children are taught hatred. I’ve seen it up close and personal. It’s antithetical to everything I believe in as a teacher. The mandate for all teachers is to instill hope, not fear and hatred.

Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them.

Abiding in the vine leads to fruit bearing.

There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.

Walk on your sacred path.

this life has been a landscape of painand still,flowersbloom in it.

Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother of the earth, but never shut your imagination off from those desires that distinguish you from the ordinary. Never allow yourself to be sapped of that extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive.

At what point is normal natural?

I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don’t know or haven’t made the effort to understand.