Quotes About Hope

One day, after I'm a daffodil, I will be able to photosynthesize. It's something to look forward to.

But it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.

Like the stars themselves, the words can guide us back home.

I am afraid. As afraid today as I was then. For my children, and for the good green world.

despite our fears of falling, the gifts of the world stand by to catch us

Can settlers be trusted to follow Nanabozho, to walk so that "each step is a greeting to Mother Earth"? Grief and fear still sit in the shadows, behind the glimmer of hope. Together they try to hold my heart closed. But I need to remember that the grief is the settlers' as well. They too will never walk in a tallgrass prairie where sunflowers dance with goldfinches. Their children have also lost the chance to sing at the Maple Dance. They can't drink the water either.

Perhaps the Skywoman story endures because we too are always falling. Our lives, both personal and collective, share her trajectory. Whether we jump or are pushed, or the edge of the known world just crumbles at our feet, we fall, spinning into someplace new and unexpected. Despite our fears of falling, the gifts of the world stand by to catch us.

They tried to bury us, but they didn't know we were seeds.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

Lend me the stone strength of the past and I will lend youThe wings of the future, for I have them.

Until meeting you, I wasn't looking for anything at all. Since meeting you, I'm kind of looking for a girlfriend.

God, I know you're sick of hearing me beg, but this is my woman, my wife. My best friend! No, she's so much more than that—she's the other half of my heart. I've waited my whole life for her—I'd give my life a hundred times to keep her safe! A thousand times! She's every breath I take, every single beat of my heart. I don't think I can live without her now. Not now…Please, God. Please. Oh God, please…

She had become the answer to prayers he hadn't known he whispered.

You dance?" "I think that might be overly optimistic," he said. "I do something. I'll try not to hurt you.

Dear God. I'll pedal if You'll steer.

Unfairness and injustice are two things that really threaten blind faith.

Come on, get in," she said. "I'm taking you home. You can get Luke to bring you back for your car tomorrow, if you don't die in your sleep." "You said that in a way that suggested you hoped I would die in my sleep," he said. "Don't be silly. I'd like you to die much more violently than that. Now get in—I don't have all night." "That's

She would never be without support. Sierra was nine months sober.

Jack had no idea what she might be thinking, but he thought, Don't turn and run just because you got kissed. Things could be worse. After

You have to find something, Officer Dodge. Something that anchors you, something that keeps you looking forward, even on the bad days, when you're tempted to look back.

elementary school. I'd worked hard to find the apartment, hoping that a nice unit

think of this often, drifting from community to community, always being the stranger and never the neighbor. People all over really are the same. They want to fall in love. They're glad to survive each day. They pray their children will have a better life than they did. These truths bind

wish I had an answer for her. Something simple like Because, or poignant, such as Every child deserves to be found, or defiant, like Why not? But the truth is, she's probably heard it all by now. A whole torrent of words and reasons. Instead of being given the one thing she wants most: answers.