Quotes About Hope

The world breaks is always breaking our bodies bear tremendous sorrow and still we stay as long as we can

And if I have hoped for more it is only the whole of loneliness swept away by understanding from "Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy

The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.

The Winter solstice (you haven't lived if you haven't seen us running around in our skivvies, banging on pots and pans, shouting "Come back, sun! Goddammit, come back! Come back!

Courage is willful hope.

Thus in the bad days, in the dark swampy times.

I have had my share of trouble and sickness but always somewhere in me there is a little spot of warmth and joy to make it all easier, like a traveler's fire burning out in the wilderness on a cold night.

I need to know," we tell ourselves. "No," God answers softly, "You need to trust.

The fact is, until we stop doubting God's goodness, we can't experience God's love.

When we're distracted and discouraged, tired and overwhelmed, there is no better place to go than to our Father. He alone has what we need. Don't snivel under a broom tree. Don't hide in a broom closet. Go to the Lord and let him sweep away your discouragement.

Take my struggles and use them for your glory. But whatever you do, please don't leave me the same.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:7, KJV).

Faith is about how you live your life in the meantime, how you make decisions when you don't know for sure what's next. What you do with yourself between the last time you heard from God and the next time you hear from God is the ongoing challenge of a life of faith.5

Be anxious about nothing. Be prayerful about everything. Be thankful for all things.

Well, let's look on the bright side," I said, deciding he needed a distraction. "Don't." "The good news is that we'll probably be either rescued or dead before we have to worry about serious hypothermia. There's always a silver lining, Hunter.

Suppose it was too much to hope for a man who could fix an air conditioner and have a soul at the same time.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.

En la posada del fracaso, donde no hay consuelo ni ascensor, el desamparo y la humedad comparten colchón y cuando, por la calle, pasa la vida, como un huracán, el hombre del traje gris saca un sucio calendario del bolsillo y grita ¿Quién me ha robado el mes de abril?

Que se muera el olvido, que se escondan las llaves de los juzgados, que se acuerde Cupido de los maridos abandonados. Cuando llegue por fin mi mensaje a tus manos, en la gasolinera vieja esperaré; y tomaremos juntos al abordaje la carretera que te conté.

Lifeis an enormous lottery: the prizes are few, the failures innumerable. Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next. That's life.