Where Hope Comes From Quotes

“You cannot mourn the life
you haven't live yet,
only one that has already gone.
You will never know the meadows
you could grow, if you are fixated
on the ashes of a garden you never had.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“The bad new is, what was shattered may never be possible to rebuild. The good new is, what you make in its place will be better than what was destroyed.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“Empty out the darkness that has accumulated at the bottom of your heart, all the words you refuse to say. Your heart is not a well to poison; remember that. When the secrets become too heavy to carry, whisper them to the wind to be whisked away.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“We must remember that an ending is the start of another beautiful something, that there is always light to be had at the end of everything.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“A war is still a war even if it is inside your head, did you know this?”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“The universe had to fall apart into dust first
to become its majestic, infinite self.
What makes you think
this trauma, this devastation,
won't be the making of
a more powerful you, too?”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“On the days you find the mirror hard to look at,
remember there is a myth which says
the face you have in this life
is the face of the person you loved most
in your last.
I know it's just a myth.
But think of how much more love
you would give yourself if it were true.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“93 percent stardust,
with souls made of flames,
we are all just stars
that have people names.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

“Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“A wound left unhealed is bound to open again. That's just what being human is.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“I wonder how I have carried so many regrets without even realising they were there.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“sending you the moon as a poem”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

“Throw away the knife you made from the sharp insults they gave you. Empty out the darkness that has accumulated at the bottom of your heart, all the words you refuse to say. Your heart is not a well to poison; remember that. When the secrets become too heavy to carry, whisper them to the wind to be whisked away.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

“I, too, hope to be that confident in a love.
Someone who I know will still love me,
even if I do not run to them

every time they call.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

“Daily Mantra 5.
There is no better time
to learn how to love yourself
than the mirror that silence gives you.
This is the time to reflect on all those things
about yourself that no one has ever
taught you how to love.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

“and i am a new survival”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

“For endings to evolve us,
they must be painful.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

“You put the forgiveness inside your chest.
Look for it in the first chamber of your heart.
It lives there for you, too. Do not forget that.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

“We may not know each other. We may never meet. But...I want you to know that no matter what you are going through, no matter how big and deep and painful those feelings are, you are not alone.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

“Just as there are five stages of grief, there are also five stages of hope. We are going to explore these through the rebirth of a star. So hold on tight. We are going to do the impossible together and bring a star back to life.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

“I learned how to honor despair so I could make way for happiness.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light