Quotes About Hope

To see, to know, to understand, even though the seeing blind, though the knowledge sadden, though the understanding shatter the dearest hopes—such has ever been the craving of the upward-striving mind in man.

know for certain that millions, I say deliberately, millions, in every civilised land are waiting for the message that will save them from the hideous abyss of materialism into which modern money-worship is driving them headlong,

hell never came into my dreamings except in the interesting shape it took in "Paradise Lost." After reading that, the devil was to me no horned and hoofed horror, but the beautiful shadowed archangel, and I always hoped that Jesus, my ideal Prince, would save him in the end.

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.

Quite often I would write down on a sheet of paper the date, the time, and "he's going to come," along with other sentences, fears—that he might not come, that he might not feel the same desire for me.

Me habría gustado no tener nada que hacer salvo esperarlo.

Ce sera dur. » Au début, je ne comprends pas bien mais il ajoute : « J'espère que pour toi aussi ce sera dur. » Voilà sa façon de dire qu'il tient à moi.

De huit heures à dix heures, c'est le noir, il n'appelle pas et j'attends. Voilà. Et je ne pense même pas à ce moment-là, comme Proust, qu'il suffirait d'un rien, d'un peu de volonté, pour ne plus souffrir, crever ce cerceau de papier au-delà duquel je serais libre.

Écrire ainsi me remplit à nouveau d'attente, d'envie de lui. Entretient le désir. François Mitterrand : « La jeunesse, c'est le temps qu'on a devant soi. »

L'avenir est trop immense pour qu'elle l'imagine, il arrivera, c'est tout

en realidad a todo el mundo le daba igual cómo se viviría dentro de cuarenta años, solo querían llegar vivos.

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

Well I thought my time was over, but it's only just begun.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.

She is why purgatory was invented.

An optimist is a person who takes action, who moves out ahead of the crowd.

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.

Why worry when you can pray?

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.

Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by an occasional miracle