Quotes About Hope

If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

Nothing lasts forever--not even your troubles.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Grasshopper was tired. He lay down in a soft place. He knew that in the morning the road would still be there, taking him on and on to wherever he wanted t go.

To be making books for children is to be in a sort of state of grace.

When the need is strong, there are those who will believe anything.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

I'm a dreamer. I freely and readily admit that. But I consider that one of my strongest qualities.

To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

Mijn indruk is helemaal niet dat patiënten alleen maar genezen willen worden, ze willen ergens mee kunnen leven, dat verschilt fundamenteel van genezen.

Nadat de afwas is gedaan, haalt ze een bosje rozen uit haar boodschappentas. Ze snijdt de rozen af en spoelt de vaas om. Het is geen antidepressivum, een bosje rozen, maar het is iets. Het begin van een beetje kleur in zijn leven brengen.

Some people know they'll live until spring and that's all they need to be happy. When I was feeling good, I just let the sun go down, knowing I'd see it again next morning. When I felt worse, and it didn't matter for what reasons, every sunset seemed to me like the end of the world. Maybe it's true, that the world dies every day at evening and is born again in the morning. But not always for everybody.

To all the young MLB players, never give up on your goals. You can reach any destiny you desire.

Basta-me minha imortalidade,/ o fluir de meu sangue de uma para outra era,/ mas em troca de um canto quente e seguro/ daria de bom grado minha vida,/ conquanto sua agulha voadora/ não me arrastasse, feito linha, mundo afora.

Believe me, I had my share of "why" questions. I turned my eyes upward again and again , and in my heart I asked why I, an ordinary human, should be bearing such an extraordinary burden of pain and grief. Why I was the one picked to deal with such a tortuous twist of fate? It all seemed so unjust. I had reached a point where I had to get answers to some questions that were inside me. Shutting myself into the world of my heart and mind, I wondered, "Why? Why? Why?

disillusioned?

So most of us pray not for riches, but for just enough to assure our living in normal comfort and perhaps a little extra for funeral expenses at the end.

Misery's fine -- as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don't know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering on.

Neither do I greatly hope to influence the trained man of speculation, who has already found a theory of things which satisfies his reason.

Sonría...mañana las cosas van a estar peor.