Quotes About Hope

O, who shall from this dungeon raise A soul enslaved so many ways? With bolts of bones, that fettered stands In feet; and manacled in hands. Here blinded with an eye: and there Deaf with the drumming of an ear; A soul hung up, as 'twere, in chains Of nerves, and arteries, and veins; Tortured, besides each other part, In a vain head and double heart?

When we think everything is going wrong, it usually isn't. We just can't see the whole picture.

BE GRATEFUL, FORGIVE PEOPLE, LOVE MORE, BLAME LESS AND BELIEVE THINGS WILL WORK OUT!

find some opportunity within the "disaster".

But when I set it back down she's still staring up—almost as if she's looking to God for

give her a quick peck, then tell her, "You'll be fine." "Never say that. That's what the doctors tell you when you're going to die.

I look up to the sky as if I'm expecting Morgan Freeman to look down at me and wink, giving me his approval.

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

She knows about men, knows a good deal of the world's character. But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard.

Não fico ressentida por conta disso, mas seria muito bom fazer coisas como passar um fim de semana em Paris, mas isso não é possível para mim no momento. Porém, sei que um dia, se seguir as regras da vida — o jogo da vida — poderei ter as coisas que sempre desejei, e elas serão muito mais especiais porque serei muito mais velha e muito mais capaz de apreciá-las.

She had such hope for the future, such belief that he would love, nurture and protect her from the difficulties that lay ahead.

In the summer of 1979 another boyfriend, Adam Russell, completed his language degree at Oxford and decided to spend a year travelling. He left unspoken the fact that he hoped the friendship between himself and Diana could be renewed and developed upon his return. When he arrived home a year later it was too late. A friend told him: "You've only got one rival, the Prince of Wales.

So you think I'll be all right?' 'You'll be fine. Everything will be fine.' 'As it could be?' 'It's always as it could be. Don't look for perfection. Look for—' 'Survival with a touch of pleasure, a touch of happiness?' 'It's all anyone can expect.

We couldn't complete the world or ourselves. We could only live, and look for small graces, and learn to accept the munificence of change.

Be near me. The world is rowdy and nothing is certain. Do not stray. None of us was meant to face the day and the night alone, though that is what we do and memory now is a place of fading togetherness. Be near me. True love is what God intends.

Cancer is a kind of possession, too. And like a demon, before it claims you, it nibbles away at who you are, erases the face you have always presented to the world to show the unwanted thing inside.

Some call it prayer. And as with all prayers, it comes down to either asking someone else to fight for you, or asking yourself to fight.

Politicians rise by toils and struggles. They expect to fall; they hope to rise again.

More battles are lost by loss of hope than loss of blood.

The calm sea was the miracle of Dunkirk.

Of my students, more than half fail to take this basic precaution, because people are terrible, stupid, and also lazy." She folded her arms, leaning against the table. "I mention this lesson every year, and every year, I am disappointed. Nevertheless, in my weakness, I retain some hope that this class will be the one class to finally demonstrate a degree of basic competence. I look forward to being disappointed once again.

The path of dawn shines brightest in the dark.

Hope can be a source of strength, but when it fails to deliver what I want, I've found a good degree of stubbornness to be an appropriate substitute.

My plan was pretty much to flee in terror and hope for the best.