Aphorisms on Hope and Faith by Sri Chinmoy

We are also combining these aphorisms with artwork, helpfully supplied by Bristol artist Vilas Silverton – feel free to print out and stick up on your wall!

Inspirational Poems to strengthen our international family of dedicated Doctors and Nurses worldwide.


A smile gives us
A new hope.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 36, #35,786, Agni Press, 2004


Hope
Cheerfully lives
In us.
– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 22, #21373, Agni Press, 2004


Always keep
Your hope alive.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 21, #46,331, Agni Press, 2001


The beauty
Of hope’s outer life
And the fragrance
Of hope’s inner life
Are keeping humanity sane.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 32, #22,755, Agni Press, 2003


Love is hope.
Hope is nectar.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 26, #25699, Agni Press, 2002


Hope
Gladdens us.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 23, #22,544, Agni Press, 2002


My prayer
Lengthens my hope.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 36, #35,174, Agni Press, 2004


Adhere to hope.
Your hopes will one day

Definitely be fulfilled.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 39, #38,763, Agni Press, 2004


To hope against hope
Can eventually become
A positive reality.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 1, #990, Agni Press, 1998


We need inner strength
In measureless measure
To serve humanity.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 25, #24,003, Agni Press, 2002


Every morning
My heart gallops
With new hopes.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 34, #33,378, Agni Press, 2003


Never give up hope!
Hope ultimately succeeds.

– Sri Chinmoy

My Christmas-New Year-Vacation-Aspiration-Prayers, Part 20, #12, Agni Press, 2003


Faith does not want to measure
The Truth.
Therefore Truth embraces faith.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 25, #24,971, Agni Press, 2002


Depend on your faith —
Your faith can and will
Do everything for you.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 43, #42,267, Agni Press, 2005


Worries and anxieties together
Fight against faith,
But eventually faith wins.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 14, #13,177, Agni Press, 1999


Faith has to be
A constant choice.
Faith challenges

Impossibility’s strength.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 20, #19,752, Agni Press, 2001


A cheerful heart Is
Amazingly beautiful.
– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 46, #45,247, Agni Press, 2006


Cheerfulness
Always succeeds.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 45, #44,426, Agni Press, 2006


Never lose cheerfulness,
Never!

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 46, #45,943, Agni Press, 2006


A cheerful mind, a cheerful heart,
A cheerful life –
These are, indeed, Heaven-products.

– Sri Chinmoy

Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 240, #23,907, Agni Press, 1997


My eyes need renewed cheerfulness.
My mind needs unchanging cheerfulness.

My heart needs sparkling cheerfulness.
My life needs imperturbable cheerfulness.

– Sri Chinmoy

Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 33, #3237, Agni Press, 1982


Cheerfulness
Is another name For fearlessness.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 30, #29169, Agni Press, 2002


My cheerfulness
Is the source
Of my strength.

– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 38, #37,514 Agni Press, 2004


We must endure Adversity
Bravely and cheerfully.
– Sri Chinmoy

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 21, #20,452, Agni Press, 2001


Remain cheerful,
For nothing destructive can pierce through The adamantine wall of cheerfulness.

– Sri Chinmoy

Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 39, #3,891, Agni Press, 1982