Quotes About Hope

I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.

My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.

I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.

My daughter passed away in 2003.

I was blessed enough to talk to my grandfather the night before he passed, and he told me that everything was going to be okay, and I know he wanted me continue and do my best, be happy, and that's what keeps me going.

I still have downs and get depressed, but I try not to dwell too much on being negative because it always passes and there is still so much to do.

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

I've always believed there is a better place somewhere. I feel like I'm E.T. and I'm just passing through.

I think everyone, especially after the passing of a loved one, starts to hope that maybe there will be something better on the other side.

Whatever time we're passing through, there will always be music.

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

When we grow up," she said, "we'll have amazing families. Our dens will be better than this. Your kids and my kids will play together in a humongous room with every kind of toy and game." "Except I won't have kids," Dan said. "I'll come over myself and play...

vision is an idle dream at best and a cynical delusion at worst - but not an achievable end

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

The '60s were an amazing time.

How could I known then that failure then that failure of ambition is like a long lingering death and that disappoint with your life never goes away? It only grows stronger with the passage of time as the clock ticks off the remaining days of your life, and any residual, hope slips like sand through arthritic fingers.

Peter Meredith

God doesn't want us to sit around all our lives in a passive way, waiting for something good to happen. He wants us to be proactive, with His help, in seeking out good things for ourselves.

Hitler's power came from his ability to sense the fears and hopes of his audiences and give them back in heightened form.

Charles] Nodier's later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities of political life are too hard to bear. They serve a useful purpose in that they give men hope when scepticism and disillusion would otherwise drive them to despair.

In life; when you expect good to happen, the bad happens and when you see the bad coming, then comes the good'' ''Never be overconfident about your expectations

Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.

Peter Robinson