Quotes About Hope

What you hope for, you also fear.

And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

This is the true wine of astonishment: We are not over when we think we are.

Hope is a woman who has lost her fear.

Only the sky above us do we hold in common. I look at it often as if, somehow, reflected from its immensities, I will one day find myself gazing into your eyes.

Let him hear me. If [god] ever listened to poor colored women, the world would be a different place.

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning myself To light up the darkness Around me.

She can have them, Mama, she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her.

Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.

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Then she added thoughtfully, "And that old woman that turned me off so short got down so bad in the end that she was walking on two sticks." And I knew she was thinking, though she never said it: Here I am today, my eight children healthy and grown and three of them in college and me with hardly a sick day for years. Ain't Jesus wonderful?

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God. Some folks didn't have him to share

Even on those days the news is fully bad. And all you can do is get out of bed and failing that give thanks you have a bed not to get out of.

though we have all encountered our share of grief and troubles, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat — no small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one. Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is the proof.

We were not meant to suffer so much and learn nothing.

you must live in the world today as you wish everyone to live in the world to come. That can be your contribution. Otherwise, the world you want will never be formed. Why? Because you are waiting for others to do what you are not doing; and they are waiting for you, and so on. The planet goes from bad to worse.

Sighing, Irene said, Why is it that we can love so much that which only makes us cry? Susannah thought for only a moment, and then, with certainty, she said: Because it is that which calls us home to the heart.

E nós ajoelhamos lá mesmo no convés e agradecemos a Deus por nos ter deixado ver a terra pela qual nossas mães e pais choraram — e viveram e morreram — para ver outra vez.

Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.