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Quotes About Hope

We are dead to love and honor/We are lost to hope and truth/We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung/And the measure of our horror is the measure of our youth/God help us for we knew the worst too young!
~ Rudyard Kipling
Well, I believe in miracles, so it comes to
~ Rudyard Kipling
because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in;
~ Rudyard Kipling
and he sat on all their laps one after the other, because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house-mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in
~ Rudyard Kipling
Florida from its beginnings has served as a catch basin for the world's detritus. It's where you go when your prospects elsewhere have ended, and you've not yet settled into despair, and you still think there's a slight chance you can start over, and no one will notice your previous failings or hold them against you while you gather your bearings and begin again.
~ Russell Banks
sharna pax and hed on a poal when the ardship of Cambry come out of his hoal
~ Russell Hoban
Mama wept openly. "If I don't die now," she cried, "there is no death.
~ Ruth Gruber
Raquela stood at her side. "Your baby was stillborn. But you're all right." The mother screamed, "Even this they deny me! They take away my land. My freedom. Now my baby. Let me die. I want to die.
~ Ruth Gruber
But the other face of British rule now showed itself naked and clear: political expediency in its most treacherous form; betrayal of the promise and the hope; surrender to the Arabs for their petroleum favors.
~ Ruth Gruber
Could a child who had never been inside a house, who had never seen a bathtub, or a flush toilet, who had long forgotten what his parents looked like before they were shot or burned, ever be normal?
~ Ruth Gruber
Hatikvah—"Song of Hope.
~ Ruth Gruber
Only you would think of Sholom Aleichem to make the people forget for a little while.
~ Ruth Gruber
How much better to fill today with the three great basics of Christian living — faith, hope, and love. All are rooted in God.
~ Ruth Myers
No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Her failure didn't matter, because at least she'd been true to her impossible dream until the very end.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Now that I think of it, maybe she loves him because all his problems give her so much to pray about, and when you're as old as she is , and your body is like enough already, you need some pretty powerful reasons to stay alive.
~ Ruth Ozeki
How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?
~ Ruth Ozeki
Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.
~ Ruth Ozeki
it's okay to have impossible goals, because if you follow your unreachable star no matter how hopeless or far, your heart will be peaceful when you're dead, even though you might be scorned and covered with scars like I am while you're still alive.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Jinsei no Itami
~ Ruth Ozeki
I've always thought of writing as the opposite of suicide,' she said. 'That writing was about immortality. Defeating death, or at least forestalling it.
~ Ruth Ozeki
It's okay to have impossible goals, because if you follow your unreachable star no matter how hopeless or far, your heart will be peaceful when you're dead, even though you might be scorned and covered with scars like I am while you're still alive.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Time slowed down, and each moment unfolded into a future filled with infinite possibilities.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Elva had said nothing to anyone. She prayed earnestly that she was all right, explaining over and over again to God what the doctor had said, and how she couldn't properly look after the children she already had. Elva liked to pray in front of a statue similar to the one in her mother's living-room. She was not praying to the statue, but it was a kind of magical doll that kept her thoughts focussed on the Being to whom she prayed.
~ Ruth Park