14,384 Quotes About Hope

I’ve come to understand the cumulative dialogue of my work as a kind of cartography of wisdom about our emerging world. This book is a map in words to important territory we all are on now together. It’s a collection of pointers that treat the margins as seriously as the noisy center. For change has always happened in the margins, across human history, and it’s happening there now. Seismic shifts in common life, as in geophysical reality, begin in spaces and cracks.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

Always count your blessings, even if you have to count them through your tears

To convert is to convinced

The MaskWe often pair the turmoil in our mindWith a calm exterior,Hoping that the maskWill serve as a floodgateTo hold back the chaosOf our swirling thoughts

Praying is a holy pilgrimage.

Freedom is the decision to live and die, doing what you love.

Inner voice is the divine voice.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.