Quotes About Hope

I wake up in the morning with a dream in my eyes

who plunged themselves under meat trucks looking for an egg, who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade, who cut their wrists three times successively unsuccessfully, gave up and were forced to open antique stores where they thought they were growing old and cried...

Following Jesus might take us into dark, lonely places where we can't see any light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, scary as it may be, resurrection is not about God coming in the nick of time to save the day but about God coming after the corpse is dead and buried. Sometimes God reaches in only when the darkness has gotten pitch black and then shows his resurrection power to bring good in the midst of evil and pain.

Faith is a great thing. The trick is keeping it. Dad

You need to have faith and trust, Moira. And a little bit of pixie dust?

You don't believe in miracles. Sure I do. I just haven't seen any lately.

If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.

one needn't be born into a beautiful life in order to have one.

That is the worst thing about despair: it is not constant, any more than love is.

Hatred bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Each morning the light came through the slats of the shutters in ripples, and as it washed towards the inhabitants of the Casa Luna it smoothed away memories of the past, It was for this that they had endured long hours in the grey English winter or freezing American climes, for this that they had worked and planned and worked extra hours/ The horrible feelings of stress, tension, anger and frustration that coursed through their veins every day almost unnoticed began to fade.

If you read fairy-tales carefully, you'll notice they are mostly about people who aren't heroes. They don't have special powers, or gifts. Often they are despised as stupid. They are bullied, beaten up, robbed, starved. But they find they are stronger than their misfortunes.

I needed her to show me how to live through sadness, how to make someone dinner. All I knew was how to be lost.

For the moment she was caught between the two worlds, neither one thing nor another. She would be sorry to let the former depart and yet she was longing for the latter to arrive: a new name and with it a new world and with it a new life.

You are very young and time, it is a great healer.

FUTURE, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

I could do nothing but hope that Heaven would be more merciful to us all than we are to one another.

Let the red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies And all is through.

History does not forbid us to hope. But it forbids us to rely upon numbers; they will be against us. If history teaches anything worth learning it teaches that the majority of mankind is neither good nor wise. When government is founded upon the public conscience and the public intelligence the stability of states is a dream.

Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.