The scars you share become lighthouses for other people who are headed to the same rocks you hit.
- Jon Acuff

Goodnight stress, I'll see you in the morning
I don't gotta guess, you're always there for me
Sowing them seeds of doubt
I think you like seeing me freak out
Goodnight stress, I'll see you in the morning
So wake up
I get out of bed, stay up
Stay out of my head
'Cause it's dangerous
And I don't wanna lose my mind, no.

- Fitz and the Tantrums

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.

- Hannah Gadsby

Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

- Hebrews 11:1

Three grand essentials to happiness in life are something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.

- Robert Browning

Happy birthday baby girl!

There were two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad...A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.
- Rachel Simon

Hope can get you through anything.
- Jamie Ford

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
- Robert Fulghum

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

in celebration of surviving

when senselessness has pounded you around on the ropes
and you’re getting too old to hold out for the future
no work and running out of money,
and then you make a try after something that you know you won’t get
and this long shot comes through on the stretch
in a photo finish of your heart’s trepidation
then for a while
even the chill factor of these prairie winters puts it at fifty below
you’re warm and have that old feeling
of being a comer, though belated
in the crazy game of live

standing in the winter night
emptying the garbage and looking at the stars
you realize although the odds are fantastically against you
when that single January shooting star
flung its wad in the maw of night
it was yours
and though the years are edged with crime and squalor
that second wind, or twenty-third
is coming strong
and for a time
perhaps a very short time
one lives as though in a golden envelope of light
- Chuck Miller

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
- George Chakiris

Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

- Jodi Picoult