Quotes About Hope

The path to her old self is overgrown, lost in the briars. But her sleeping mind . . . you thingg, Michael, the sleeping mind has paths of its own? Trails the waking self has never walked?

Fuck it fuck it fuck it fuck it. They were perhaps the only true words of prayer she had ever been able to utter with all her heart.

Still, she shoved herself to her feet, because she needed to do what she could, whether it made a difference or not.

Was there any human urge more pitiful—or more intense—than wanting another chance at something? His

Did he finish reading The Hunger Games before his heart gave out? I hoped so. For me, a lifelong bookworm, there was nothing quite so awful as the thought of dying fifty pages from the end of a good novel.

I've already visited the lost and lonely place at the end of the world, and all I know is, the only way to keep going is to do the things the people you loved would've wanted you to do.

Written in faded blue letters, ornate, almost Gothic, across Gil's chest, were two lines: It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. —G. Greene

Science Fiction stories are the dazzling flares we launch into the darkness, to catch a glimpse of the country before us and show us our way.

I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.

note to Lois]Believe. Always believe.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before (Philippians 3:13).

Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.

One of the things that can help people with cancer is having something that you really look forward to doing, so that you can focus on that while the treatments are going on. I guess it's like saying, 'I have unfinished business left before I die.

You've got to have dreams. If you don't continue to have dreams, then you're only defeating yourself. If you continue to follow your dreams, you're going to succeed.

What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.

Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that things will be alright.

We did something very simple," Effie says. "Yes, and what was that?" Effie Mumford stares off the porch into the night sky. The first stars of the evening are quietly arriving, and Billy, following her gaze, listens as the small girl speaks. "We allowed ourselves, for one brief moment, to believe in something we could not see.

Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.

I figured Alan wasn't really Alan anymore, that maybe the meds or the disease had made him someone else, someone more timid, someone I actually felt close to. I kept hoping that this would be it, that this would be as bad as it would ever get.

You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.

But to lose my idealism, to quit believing in the ability of human beings to rise above their baser instincts, was to become old and bitter and of no service to anyone, not even myself.

Zo shook her head. It wasn't going to happen like this, she wanted to say, it didn't get to end this way. He didn't get to win.

Whatever happens, I hope you get everything that you want out of life. You deserve it." "Well,"I said, turning away, "thanks." "I mean it, Perry. What happened tonight was not easy, but it had to be done. I could not have done it without you.