Quotes About Hope

the most important currency a congregation has to spend is hope.

I keep hoping that one day I will arise reborn from my phoenix dreams instead of feeling like day-after barbecue.

Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

I'm hoping the prince prevailed and lived happily ever after.

Prepare for war, I thought, and pray for peace.

Tiger had reached out to the Mickelsons after Amy's diagnosis, sending a heartfelt text in which he included the sentiment that he hoped doctors would someday find a cure for cancer, which had struck Woods's father in 1998 and begun his declining

Sometimes I think that I've never been so free as during that couple of hours when I'm trotting up the path out of the gates and turning by that bare-faced, big-bellied oak tree at the lane end. Everything's dead, but good, because it's dead before coming alive, not dead after being alive.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

Hope to the very end, he told himself, even when you've slipped into the fires of Hell and the flames are searing your guts.

Life has . taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

I'm so amazed," he says, "by the ability of life to hang on to anything. Given the opportunity, it goes everywhere. A species as creative and arguably intelligent as our own should somehow find a way to achieve a balance. We have a lot to learn, obviously. But I haven't given up on us.

Removing his sunglasses, Sala shakes his head. "I'm so amazed," he says, "by the ability of life to hang on to anything. Given the opportunity, it goes everywhere. A species as creative and arguably intelligent as our own should somehow find a way to achieve a balance. We have a lot to learn, obviously. But I haven't given up on us.

my venturings had become desperate searches for the sustenance of torment.

The things we have most longed for do not happen; or if they do, it is never at the time nor under the circumstances when they could have made us happiest.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.

We are not waiting for a Godot, but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

It's called optimism — but I'm losing the hang of it fast.

Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over.

Arethusa liked to call us Poseidon's Children. Orphans of the storm. We'd endured the worst the world could throw at us, the worst consequences of our own stupidity, and came through ... ready to face the dawn. But there are always more storms, Chiku.