Quotes About Hope

But to raise one's hopes is to risk their falling further.

You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing.

What you realize, ultimately, when you have nothing to lose, is that even though the world can be kind to you, and reveal its beauty through the thin cracks in everything, in the end it will either take you or leave you.

For as long as we have been a species, whether with medicine or technology, by gathering power, by embarking on journeys, or by telling stories, we humans have tried to defeat death. None of us ever has.

They'll say you're too little, Werner, that you're from nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you Werner. I think you'll do something great. -All The Light We Cannot See

You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing." - Madam Manec

Hope was a sunrise, a friend in an alley, a whisper in an empty corridor.

Hope is something that can be very dangerous but without it life would be horribly dry. Impossible, even.

This snowy-haired dreamer plucked out of the soot.

Who among us, in our lowest hour, can expect to be saved? Have you loved your life? Have you cherished each miraculous breath?

La esperanza es algo que puede ser muy peligroso, pero sin ella la vida sería horriblemente árida, imposible, incluso.

Así es como se miden, quizás, las cosas, por una serie de abandonos que confirmamos, contra toda esperanza, en poder llegar a aceptar algún día.

Death can seem so final, like a blade dropped through the neck. But the nature of death is not at all final. It is not some dark cliff off which we leap. I hope to show you it is merely a fog, something we can peer into and out of, something we can know and face and not necessarily fear. By each life taken from our collective lives we are diminished. But even in death we have much to celebrate. It is only a transition, like so many others.

Che cosa non ha fatto, la guerra, ai sognatori.

Save yourself, the neighbors had told him. Save yourself. Joseph wonders if he is beyond saving, if the only kind of man who can be saved is the man who never needed saving in the first place.

is like an angry hen. The more you chase, the harder it is to catch her. You wait, and be patient, and hope that eventually she comes to you.

from Marilynne Robinson's Gilead comes back to me. "There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

You want to know? What it's like? To prop up the dam? To keep your fingers plugged in its cracks? To feel like every single breath that passes is another betrayal, another step farther away from what you were and where you were and who you were, another step deeper into the darkness

We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.

What the war did to dreamers.

leaving one field of dreams for another does not diminish the beauty of where you have been. As a new field rises and the former field recedes it is all part of His plan. Your present location is more than preparation for where you are going. It is the good grounding you need in order to be able to grow and rise into the next place that God has prepared for you.

You're not defined by your past experiences. You're prepared by them.

don't get mad at your failures, get up and do it again tomorrow.

We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are, but mercy assaults us and batters at the gates of our heart, demanding that we be made new...Sometimes sorrow is easier than joy, and despair more comforting that hope.