Believe that tomorrow will be better....#hope #faith #patience

"Don't worry about a thing 'cause every little thing's gonna be all right."
- From the song 'Three Little Birds' by Bob Marley
http://youtu.be/zaGUr6wzyT8

Hope is a good thing – maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
- Andy from the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'
http://youtu.be/C_diyX7yNeE

"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free."
- Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption)

"For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience."
- Holy Bible (ESV), Romans 8:24-25

"Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier."
- Author Unknown

"Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity."
- Robert Burton

"People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people."
- Zig Ziglar

"Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith."
- Adel Bestavros

"Patience is the art of hoping."
- Vauvenargues

#MainMessageForToday
Hope provides something to look forward to and makes the rain (pain, suffering and struggles) easier to bear. With hope, patience comes easier.
#lifelessons

Did you know? It is Caribbean American Heritage Month!
Look for songs by Caribbean artists all month.

Full of hope for a bright future if she follows the right path.....

From the song 'Sycamore Tree' by Lady Saw:

Mi love yuh but mi still have mi pride
Mi a gal wi gi yuh all di wickedest ride
But mi haffi stay pon di righteous side
Mi naw mek nuh bwoy mek mi walk an hide
Call mi old fashion a nuh everything mi like
Mi a gal wi ride pon yuh big Ninja Bike
Run any marathon inna mi site
But a one mic mi chat pon
Ah mi studio mic

Remember it was under the sycamore tree
A bwoy waan mi bow
An mi tell him fi flee
Remember it was under the sycamore treeee
The sun stop shining for me

https://youtu.be/XhO1C191YsM

"We hold onto the wrong people because we hope that they'll change, and we hope they'll treat us right one day. However, we should let go."
- Sonya Parker

"Hope deceives more men than cunning does."
- Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims

"False hopes are more dangerous than fears."
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Children of Hurin

"Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say."
- Henry Miller

"In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All-too-Human

"Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered."
- Bentley Little, The Policy

"Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it."
- Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

Like everything, hope has a "bad side." False hopes can lead a person to make inappropriate choices and can lead to discontent and unhappiness.

#Hope helps a person stay #strong and #persevere......

From the song 'Not Giving Up' by Rupee:

Not giving up on you,
Do what I got to do,
So we can make it through,
Don't care what they say or do.

http://youtu.be/vNMoFQq99tc

This team was full of #hope and #courage and #confidence:
The Jamaican Bobsled Team (in the movie 'Cool Runnings')
http://youtu.be/Jpdg5XOZZDY

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller

"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope."
- Martin Luther

"Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion."
- Thomas Fuller

"Great hopes make great men."
- Thomas Fuller

"Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope."
- John Johnson

"All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope."
- Henri Nouwen

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
- Dale Carnegie

Extraordinary men and women in history have shown us that hope is a great treasure. In
dire circumstances, when there seems to be no hope, hope can help a person stay strong and persevere.

From the song 'I Say A Little Prayer' by Diana King:

The moment I wake up
Before I put on my makeup
I say a little prayer for you
While combing my hair, now
And wondering what dress to wear, now
I say a little prayer for you

Forever and ever, you'll stay in my heart
And I will love you
Forever and ever, we never will part
Oh, how I'll love you
Together forever, that's how it must be
To live without you
Would only be heartbreak for me

https://youtu.be/FMSn1gv0qM8

"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."
- Samuel Smiles, Self-Help

"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."
- Lin Yutang

"You see, hope is actually something we create. It's not something that magically appears from an outside source. We each have within us the capacity to generate hope."
- Naomi Drew, 8 Ways to Increase Hope
http://www.beliefnet.com/Health/Increase-Hope.aspx

"Hope is a light we keep inside that no one can touch."
- Jermaine J. Evans

"Hope is the beacon which points to prosperity."
- Edward Counsel, Maxims

"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."
- Robert H. Schuller

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."
- Barbara Kingsolver

"To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."
- Tony Dorsett

There is always tomorrow.....

From the song 'Always Tomorrow' by Gloria Estefan:

If I could do it all again, my life would be
Infinitely better than before, I wouldn't waste a moment,
Make time for laughing with my friends,
Make love, make music, make amends,
Try to make a difference, try to love, try to understand,
Instead of just givin' up, I'd use the power at my command.

But there's always tomorrow to start over again,
Things will never stay the same.
The only one sure thing is change,
That's why there's always tomorrow.

http://youtu.be/MeRT6_h6q3w

"Hope has two beautiful daughters – their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are."
- St. Augustine

"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
- Vaclav Havel

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."
- Orison Swett Marden

"Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear."
- President Snow in the movie 'Hunger Games'
http://youtu.be/UVKlk26-ZOU

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."
- Norman Cousins

"Hope is what motivates us to work hard and get things done. It’s the idea that something better will happen in the future because of what we do."
- George Anderton

Hope is a form of optimism that motivates and also tends to bring out courage.

Did you know? It is Caribbean American Heritage Month!
Look for songs by Caribbean artists all month.

Full of hope.....

From the song 'Better Must Come' by Buju Banton:

Better will (a go) come I say - better must come,
Don't put your mind astray - it must come,
Work hard and pray,
Thank God for every day.

https://youtu.be/Nu3dPzPr3eU

"A man begins to die when he ceases to expect anything from tomorrow."
- Abraham Miller, Unmoral Maxims

"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate."
- G. K. Chesterton

"Hope is that feeling that the things we want will be achieved or certain events will turn out for the best."
- Kevin Ngo

"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
- Jean Kerr

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh

What is #hope?
To want something to happen or be true and think that it could happen or be true. (Merriam Webster)

In life, the outcome of an event, circumstance or struggle may be uncertain, but a person needs to hope tomorrow will be better and never give up.

Theme for the week (6/14 - 6/20): Hope.