Quotes About Hope

The American lives in a land of wonders, in which everything seems to be in constant flux, and every change seems to mark an advance. Hence the idea of the new is coupled in his mind with the idea of the better. Nowhere does he perceive the limits that nature may have imposed on man's efforts. In his eyes, that which does not exist is that which has not yet been attempted.

Among all beings, man alone shows a natural distaste for existence and an immense desire to exist: he scorns life and fears nothingness. These different instincts constantly push his soul toward the contemplation of another world, and it is religion that leads him there. So religion is only a particular form of hope, and it is as natural to the human heart as hope itself.u

Democracy shuts the past against the poet, but opens the future before him.

Rather, he accepted democracy as an objective fact and wanted to address positive and negative lessons the French people could learn from the American example. He wrote, "I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or to hope from its progress."5

Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory.

It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

I believe,' he thought. 'I have faith.' He jaunted again and failed again. 'Faith in what?' he asked himself, adrift in limbo. 'Faith in faith,' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

Faith in faith," he answered himself. "It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

No es necesario tener nada en qué creer. Basta con creer que en algún sitio hay algo digno de creer en ello.

Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?

The money truck caught on fire and some of the money was burned, but we took what we could and later I made it a payday for everyone. I still have some of those burnt notes and someday I will cash them in for some good ones. The

We have to hope, Daniel was saying, that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters.

Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you

the midst of apparent chaos and destruction. There is always another story going on behind the story that we see. God is at work in every situation, no matter how grim.

Magdala came to the

Time dribbles through our fingers while we wait.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.

It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

For what you can fix, there are a hundred remedies. For what cannot be cured, not even words will do.

What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.

In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.