Quotes About Hope

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

Pick yourself up,Dust yourself off,Start all over again.

She wasn't certain of exactly what they had together; she doubted Owen knew, either; but whatever it was, she desperately wanted to hold on to it. They were only at the beginning of what they could become together; if she could help it, she would do anything that she could to keep it from ending.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

The people still waited with infinite patience for the democracy that had been promised them

Sometimes living with him is like being told to hold my breath as a matter of life and death - but never being told when to let that breath out. So I don't know what to do for the best. To let out that breath and suffer the consequences or to keep holding on no matter what it does to me.

That's what came from having romance in your soul, I suppose. You believed in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.

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That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.

He just hijacks me. I love him. And I won't be able to give anyone a real chance until that's over.

Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

Guns aren't lawful;Nooses give;Gas smells awful;You might as well live.

Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

But Mrs. Brockington, old, alone, almost crippled by rheumatism, had faith and courage. She had more. She had a warm serenity, and when Ellen was with her, she almost had it too. For goodness is catching. Mrs. Brockington was further on the road Ellen wanted to travel, and because Mrs. Brockington had got there, Ellen felt she might get there too.

All those books, all those prayers and she had got nothing from them. When everything went well for her she had been able to pray, she couldn't now. There was such urgency in her present situation that until the pressure was removed she couldn't think about God. She hadn't the patience to pray. It was a shock to her. Surely God was for these times?

Each soul has its solace.

Faith is required to get a vision for things that we don't see yet in our life.

Then [after you find God's plans] you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:12-13).

The good news is God isn't waiting for your perfect youth talk to do a mighty work through you.

When there is darkness there is no point to be down. It is your chance to shine!

I was a loser in high school. . . . And I'm here to tell my fellow dweebs and losers that your day will come. High school is not the final word on you. There is hope.

They'd been afloat now without food, water, shelter, or sleep for over forty hours. Of the 1,196 crew13 members who'd set sail from Guam three days earlier, probably no more than 600 were still alive. In the previous twenty-four hours alone, at least 200 had likely slipped beneath the waves or been victims of shark attack. Since the sinking, each boy had been floating through the hours asking himself the same hard question: Will I live, or do I quit?

I know a lot of things about you, Garth...And I'm rooting for you anyways.

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring.