HERE IS A COLLECTION OF IDEAS, THOUGHTS AND MUSINGS OF HOPE. IT BRIGHTENS!
A collection of ideas, thoughts and musings on hope.
"The most authentic thing about us is our
capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to
be greater than our suffering."
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"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."
"What has changed? I have hope now. I know I can
help people and that people care about me, and I about them. People
listened to me and accepted my thoughts and feelings. I mattered and
things mattered (matter) to me.
I am still on medication, still see my
therapist once a week and my social worker every two weeks (and he is
only a phone call away). I care about people. I even care about me. I
want to do things. I want to be here for and with my friends and want
to help them be here. I have trained in suicide intervention therapy
and hope to teach it. If I have come through this to do nothing else, I
can teach others how to cope, and how to help."
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a
flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those
who have rekindled this light."
"Hope is a light we keep inside that no one can touch."
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words — wait and hope."
"Suicide is the triumph of pain, fear and loss
over hope.
Suicide is most often the result of pain, hopelessness and
despair. It is almost always preventable through caring, compassion,
commitment and community."
"Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope;
and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or
unchangeable."
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning."
"I have felt the fear and the pain first-hand. Now I must advocate
for my peers. It is what I can do."
"Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring
the enormity of the task ahead, or the roadblocks that stand in our
path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope
is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the
contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to
reach for it, work for it, and fight for it."
“So I just feel my reason to go on living was to
be here for my son and to help him through this too and to try and
make him see that life is the most important thing in the world and we
will have many storms but we can weather them if we try and of course
we will have sunny days too. I wish that there was a way for others
like myself to make people who are feeling like committing suicide to
realize there are so many special things in life along with the bad and
we have to accept that we will experience both situations but at least
we are alive to experience them and go on till it is our real time to
leave the planet and not leave by our own hands which is so wrong in
every way possible.”
“'Where there is life there is hope' is confirmed over and over in our counselling and research.
The stories of anguish and triumph we hear show repeatedly that hope begins with a decision to
survive. It is like getting married to the adventure of life, for better or for worse. Saying Yes is a
decision that I am in for the full trip. Saying Yes to life is much different than saying 'maybe'.”
When you are faced with difficult choices, or situations which have gone on for much too long,
try asking yourself: What would a hopeful person do? What would a hopeful person say? How
would a hopeful person explain this situation to others? There are times when questions like
these make the picture a whole lot clearer. A journey guided by Hope is more manageable than a
journey with no guide at all.
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality
that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that
helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Something I assume we all share is the desire to be “happy”.
It is something we pursue. We search for happiness; things
that make us happy. Maybe finding happiness is like looking
for our sunglasses. Where could they be? Where did I leave
them? We search everywhere and still can’t find them.
Eventually we discover that our sunglasses are resting on the
top of our head.
Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. Hope is the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best.
THINGS WILL CHANGE. I have realized that suicide
is a selfish act that can not be undone. Yeah life might be hard right
now but by giving up you don't know what is to come. Stay strong, go
to therapy, get the right medication, and accept that life will throw
all sorts of crap at you but that you are strong no matter how you feel
right now. You've made it this far, don't give up yet.
Take care, good luck, and God bless.
Dr. Denise J. Larsen maintains a database of articles and
research about hope. Articles are indexed by topic, and there is a
large collection of articles about hope and suicide. 
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