Quotes About Hope

We may meet again; the world is not after all so very large a place." He

But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thinf at once, I would do nothing forever.

I'd been ready to go down to the graduation hall and fight for my life; I'd been ready to fight for the lives of everyone I knew, for the chance of a future. I didn't need this much more to lose.

I didn't know those normal kids and maybe I'd never know them, but each one of them was a story whose unhappy ending hadn't been written yet, and in its place I'd inscribed one line with my own hand

Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.

Skin had hope, that's what skin does. Heals over the scarred place, makes a road.

Sometimes a bus ride was all it took to feel better.

Fresh as a new notebook — that's how anyone wanted to live. Hopeful as a pencil sharpened, clear as one beam of light landing on the table's far side.

My infinity would be/ the never-ending light/ you deserve/ every road opening up in front of you

Last year we thought this year would be better and this year last year looks pretty good.

Last night I dreamed—blessed illusion— that I had a beehive here in my heart and that the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. — Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee: Poems (HarperCollins, 2009)

as a boy stands back from his earlier self mocking it and the light of fireflies blinking against an old fence has become as sad as it is lovely because so many hands are gone by now it is not that we wanted the light to be caught      but reached for that was it

Freedom will feel good to you too. Please acknowledge our higher purpose.

I don't know if my father can hear me. But it is important to pretend he can./ My sanity rests in that. The man he was can hear the daughter I am.

She stood on the roof, tears on her face. What was the thing she never gave up? The simple love of her difficult place.

What happens to Peace when people fight? (She hides her face.) What does she dream of? (Better people.) Does she ever give up?

We conceived of the planet as female, an all-giving Mother Nature, just as we conceived of the female body, infinitely alterable by and for man; we serve both ourselves and our hopes for the planet by insisting on a new female reality on which to base a new metaphor for the earth: the female body with its own organic integrity that must be respected.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.

If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.

faith removes limitations!

prayer based upon FAITH always works.

FAITH and FEAR make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.