Hope Center

established to address the unmet needs of patients & families

affected by HIV in Knox & surrounding counties

“Hope is a connection to others.  What’s important is knowing that you

belong somewhere and that you can love and be loved.”

                                                - Breton

“Like an umbilical cord, hope sustains me and helps me to hang on, to keep going,

and to go as far as I can, the best that I can.”

                                                - Jan

“ I think hope is life...

the willpower to do the things that are important to you.”

                                                - Ryan

“Hope grows.  It’s cut from the same cloth as love;

it’s more interesting at the beginning, but it changes. 

If it stayed the same it would not be truly present.

Like caring for a plant,  it must be nurtured and fed.”

                                                - Lawrence

“The contribution I’ve made is that other people would see and learn

from whatever it is that I’ve left behind …

it’s like handing over the rein or passing the torch on

to somebody else to hope for you.”

                                    - Matt

“You need to have a positive attitude,

and hope gives you that.”

                                    - Kate

“Hope is the belief in possibilities.”

                                    - Garrett

*  Quotes used with permission

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