Quotes About Hope

Even if my father and mother abandon me, the LORD will take care of me. Psalm 27:10

Everybody has to find their own way out of hell. Just don't fall asleep there, that's all.

No! No matter how cut up she was, no matter how many scars on her body, no matter that every man who looked at her thought she was repugnant, she wanted to live! "Lia," Robert asked quietly, "how

Good omens let you down. Bad ones give you something to fight against.

Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life.

We rattled on, away from Les Mille, and we racked our brains as to where they could be taking us. To the Pyrenees? To one of the camps in the East Pyrenees? Or farther away toward the west? Maybe to Gurs, where our wives were?

An actual misfortune is almost always less painful to him than his fear of it, just as, of course, his actual experience of joys is almost always less stirring than his hopes and anticipations of them.

Where there is no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18 KJV)

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We do not live by the violence of a sword, but the time has come to live by the power of one.

It was not the past that broke you. - It was the empty future, the endless string of days filled with none of the people who mattered most.

I know you have a past, but personally, I'm vested in our future.

Humans are interesting, however. Our ability to adapt is truly impressive. Our rage against our own suffering. Our relentless need to find a way out, to do something, anything, to advance our lot in life.

Survival isn't a destination. It's a journey. And most of the people I help, they're still getting there.

You don't become a teacher without having some level of optimism. And you don't stay in the field if you don't believe that everyone, from bitter teens to burnt-out administrators, can change. I

The gift of gratitude, we say in AA. It took me a long time to find it, and I'm still not the best at remembering it, but every now and then, I almost understand.

when she'd feared they hadn't rescued a woman after all, but only a shell of one.

It's human nature, Rainie. We're all looking for something to believe in, and someone to blame.

Thank you," I say, and I mean it. Ten days, ten months, ten years, you never know when the next craving is going to hit, and in those moments, a single connection can make all the difference.

Vous savez quoi ? Faire les cent pas toute la nuit n'empêchera pas l'avenir d'arriver.

Once upon a time, there was a little girl in a big house who loved her father so much she was sure he would never leave her. But he did. And now this.

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.