Quotes About Hope

stories are better than fiction, so let's hope for some real-life sequels.

Katherine V. Forrest

For learning to live happily even after, finding a way to forgive the unforgivable, and to move forward in life graciously with hope in our hearts and goodwill in our gestures and in our words, may very well be the essence of what it is to truly love each other.

Expectation has been called "the root of all heartache

feel good when life matches our vision of what we think could and should happen.

Expectation has been called "the root of all heartache," and certainly, failed expectations are often the root of deep confusion and inner chaos, as well.

Katherine Woodward Thomas

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. WILLIAM STAFFORD

The end of love is a crossroads, and there will be those who go on to live lesser lives in the aftermath of heartbreak. My hope is that you are not one of them.

you must become more interested in what's possible from here on than you are in rectifying the past, and more invested in how you might midwife this transition harmoniously than in getting what you want in the short term.

So much that was beautiful and so much that was hard to bear. Yet whenever I showed myself ready to bear it, the hard was directly transformed into the beautiful. ETTY HILLESUM

My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. —Kahlil Gibran

The way to overcome the impossible has always been the same. Don't fear the giants. The Lord is with you always. Just believe and fight! You already have the victory.

Think how your life would be changed if you passionately longed for and lived every day as if this would be the moment Jesus would return!

Jesus is the messianic craftsman whom Zechariah spoke about.

Why is learning about these Jewish festivals so important? It is in looking back at what God has done that we can see forward to His future plans for us. "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future'" (Jeremiah 29:11).

When I was little, I asked my mom to help me memorize Matthew 7:7: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

A real friend makes you feel better about yourself. Friends help you cope when you think you're done and offer hope that it can get better. They love you as you are but won't let you stay that way. Clearly, having friends improves our lives. And best friends? They make every good thing even better.

To those of us who are alienated from home, marginalized, cast out, or lost, God is crying out: I am your Father! I will do anything to buy you back, restore you to my family. Or as Jeremiah 29:11 says, "to give you hope and a future.

Optimism is joyful searching; pessimism is a prison of fear and a clutching at illusionary safety.

Optimism is wide-open in contrast to pessimism's closed heart.

It's clear that love is the container in which broken hearts are rebuilt.

I previously had in my head but not in my heart—and I will stay with this sadness as best I can.