Quotes About Hope

I looked at those patient huddlers on the [Embassy] benches who had hardly moved, and a horrible irony hit me: they wanted so badly to get into the States; I wanted so badly to stay out.

To her, such sensitivity was hardly a sign of a mental flaw or disorder. At least she hoped not, for she was highly sensitive herself. I recall her grin. "As are most of the people who strike me as really worth knowing.

While it is wise to accept what we cannot change about ourselves, it is also good to remember that we are never too old to replace discouragement with bits and pieces of confidence and hope.

I remember that we are all young, and I feel youngness in me, that I can keep trying. You can try a hundred things in your life, and if nothing in those hundred makes you satisfied, you can still go on trying.

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant--the digitalis of failure.

Heaven: the Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Many

When life hands you lemons make lemonade ! After my cancer diagnosis this became my Moto and it got me though the worst of it! I came out ahead cancer free for five years so far !!!!!

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

You have tossed me a lifeline. If you only knew how I'd been drowning, how I'd considered that I'd gone down for the third time long ago, how I kept thrashing around in the water simply because I still felt the impulse to fight back and the tug of a distant shore….

I'm hoping that it is too late for you to flip over on me because it is certainly much too late for me.

And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.

And he prayed that his family would be protected from the atom bomb disease called leukemia.

waited for her under the maple trees

there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

But you only have to live one minute at a time, Ruth, and any one can endure anything for one minute at a time!

Because sometimes it doesn't help to chase after the thing you want. No. Sometimes you have to wait, however long it takes, until what you want most comes to you.

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.