Quotes About Hope

We must remember that this is not a bad world but a good world in the process of becoming.

No lea libros que le digan que el mundo está llegando a su fin, ni lea escritos de filósofos escandalizadores y pesimistas que dicen que vamos hacia el demonio. El mundo no va hacia el demonio; está yendo a Dios. Es una maravillosa transformación.

Never allow yourself to feel disappointed. You may expect to have a certain thing at a certain time, and not get it at that time; and this will appear to you like failure.

Nunca se permita sentirse decepcionado. Puede esperar tener algo en un momento dado y no obtenerlo en ese momento, y esto le parecerá un fracaso. Pero si se aferra a su fe, encontrará que el fracaso es sólo aparente. Siga haciendo las cosas en la cierta manera y si no recibe lo que esperaba, recibirá algo mucho mejor que lo hará ver que el aparente fracaso fue en realidad un gran éxito.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

Religion can mean solace and serenity, a kind of security, a private small garden of kindness in a desert of cruelty that seems to stretch out as far as they can see.

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

His clock was set on pioneer time. He met trains that had not yet arrived, he waited on platforms that hadn't yet been built, beside tracks that might never be laid.

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.

Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition.

Mexico was an interlude of magic between a chapter of defeats and an unturned page.

The light is nostalgic about mornings past and optimistic about mornings to come.

She will burn bright until she goes out; she will go on standing on tiptoe till she falls.

Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.

She will burn bright until she goes out; she will go on standing on tiptoe until she falls.

For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.

I'm tired of hearing that the Lord shapes the back to the burden.

And I would not blame you if you still asked, Why bother to make contact with kindred spirits you never see and may never hear from, who perhaps do not even exist except in your hopes? Why spend ten years in an apprenticeship to fiction only to discover that this society so little values what you do that it won't pay you a living wage for it?

I was pondering the vanity of human wishes and the desperation of human hope, the tooth of time, the vulnerability of good and the unseen omnipresence of evil, and the frailty and passion of life.

and so give your uncommon readers a chance to join you in the solidarity of pain and love and the vision of human possibility. But isn't it enough? For lack of the full heart's desire, won't it serve?

Whatever we thought about art and its relation to life, we knew that the Faulkner motto we had adopted in harder times no longer served. "They kilt us but they ain't whupped us yit" was no watchword for this world so full of interest, instruction, suggestiveness, possibility,