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Quotes About Hope

and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes
~ Louisa May Alcott
El viento silbaba por encima de las abatidas colinas, el agua caía en forma de lúgubre llovizna, y el ocaso se cernió sobre el paisaje. Pero los ojos del hombre tranquilo penetraban la niebla con la misma calma que si tuviera ante sí un radiante arco de promesas extendiéndose por la grisura del cielo.
~ Louisa May Alcott
That engagement was such a farce, that she never had much faith in it, so she put her love way in a corner of her heart, and tried to forget it, hoping it would either die, or have a right to live...Polly had a pang, and thought she couldn't possibly bear it. But she always found she could, and so came to the conclusion that it was a merciful provision of nature that girls' hearts could stand so much, and their appetites continue good, when unrequited love was starving.
~ Louisa May Alcott
something very splendid. What it was, she had no idea as yet, but
~ Louisa May Alcott
To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman, and I sincerely hope my girls may know of this beautiful experience. It is natural to think of it, Meg, right to hope and wait for it, and wise to prepare for it, so that when the happy time comes you may feel ready for the duties and worthy of the joy.
~ Louisa May Alcott
His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother.
~ Louisa May Alcott
smile upon him far, far from foemen's power. And Mohammed, thinking to look upon a dying slave, shall
~ Louisa May Alcott
O Christie! never think it's time to die till you are called; for the Lord leaves us till we have done our work, and never sends more sin and sorrow than we can bear and be the better for, if we hold fast by Him.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Seems to me poor children
~ Louisa May Alcott
Let us not tire of a good work, hard though it may be and wearisome; think of the many little hearts that in their sorrow look to us for help. What would the green Earth be without its lovely flowers!
~ Louisa May Alcott
When he had gone, she went to her little chapel, and sitting in the twilight, prayed for Beth, with streaming tears and an aching heart, feeling that a million turquoise rings would not console her for the loss of her little sister
~ Louisa May Alcott
I am not a young lady, and it's only a step. Take care of yourself, won't you? Yes, but you will come again, I hope? If you promise to come and see us after you are well. I will. Good night, Laurie! Good night, Jo, good night! When all the afternoon's adventures had been told, the family felt inclined to go visiting in a body
~ Louisa May Alcott
Thou givest me such hope and courage, and I have nothing to give back bit a full heart and these empty hands
~ Louisa May Alcott
Now, Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness, but at the sound of certain words which the old gentleman artfully introduced into his closing sentence, the broken heart gave an unexpected leap, and a green oasis or two suddenly appeared in the howling wilderness.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Hearing, like a sad refrain- 'Be worthy, love, and love will come,' In the falling summer rain.
~ Louisa May Alcott
We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
~ Louise Erdrich
Higher Power makes promises we all know they can't back up, but anybody ever go and slap an old malpractice suit on God? Or the U.S. government? No they don't. Faith might be stupid, but it gets us through.
~ Louise Erdrich
Ever since I understood this life was to be mine, I have wanted only for it to continue in its precious routine.
~ Louise Erdrich
I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I'll never know how things turn out.
~ Louise Erdrich
Asema. You're forgetting. A people who see themselves primarily as victims are doomed. And we're not doomed, are we?
~ Louise Erdrich
You're forgetting. A people who see themselves primarily as victims are doomed. And we're not doomed, are we?
~ Louise Erdrich
he is coming into the office to see if he is fit to go into the firm later on, which I hope and trust he will be.
~ Ron Chernow
He continued to slip into depressions that he couldn't shake, and his triumphs seemed only to deepen his gloom. The sea alone would lighten his mood.
~ Ron Chernow
In Heaven's name, don't make this letter public, since, were you to do so, I fear my brethren of the Methodist Church might fear I had so far fallen from grace as to leave no hope of recovery.
~ Ron Chernow