Quotes About Hope

I'm pro-choice. But I hope that choice will be life.

It's never time to panic, folks. It's never, ever gonna be time to give up on our country. It will never be time to give up on the United States. It will never be time to give up on yourselves.

When we are young, we can put up with a great deal of discomfort in order to follow a dream. If, after thirty-five years, I'm still doing my own thing, it's because I haven't forgotten the dream. Let no man take your dream away. It will sustain you to the end.

The pure, the bright, the beautiful, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth; The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The striving after better hopes … These things can never die.

It's fine to dream, provided we can deal with the reality when we wake up

And when all the wars are done,' I said, 'a butterfly will still be beautiful.

Bad times are good times to prepare for better times.

It has bloomed again, This flower that I thought dead. In one moment of despair And pain, I'd trampled it in the ground Upon this barren plain. Little did I know That it would rise again, This flower that I thought dead. My soul would need A surer weapon than despair To crush a thing so bright, so fair.

In times of crisis, it's wonderful what the imagination will do.

Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. If your way be long, let your heart be strong, So keep right on round the bend.'   By

when all the wars are done, a butterfly will still be beautiful. Ruskin

The world seems crowded with unfinished lives.

forward to another great day on the planet Earth. We must cherish each day as though it is our last.

kindest people are often those who have come through testing personal tragedies. A

sang first of the birth

Life has its ups and downs and periods of darkness, but now and then it springs a surprise, such as an encounter with an old friend, and makes us want to go on a little longer.

And when all the wars are done,' I said, 'a butterfly will still be beautiful.

Take any path and hope for the best. At least it will lead you out of the shadows.

As we journey through the world, we must inevitably encounter meanness and selfishness. As we fight for our survival, the higher visions and ideals often fade. It is then that we need ladybirds! Contemplating that tiny creature, or the flower on which it rests, gives one the hope—better, the certainty—that there is more to life than interest rates, dividends, market forces, and infinite technology.

The slender maindenhair fern grows firm on a rock While all around her the water swirls and chatters And then disappears in a rush Down to the bottom of the hill When I'm surrounded by troubled water, Lord, Let me find within a rock to cling to, And give me the quiet patience of the maidenhair Who has learned to live with the rock

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

And when all the wars are done, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.