Quotes About Hope

It's peculiar, our nature to want to save others. During the war, you worked feverishly to save the children. Lilli was doing her best to save you, I was trying to save the men in my section, and , by the time it was over , we all failed. But Audrey, did we ? Because here you are, popping up out of nowhere, your box bringing with it a whispered feeling that you are here to prod ne forward. And so, perhaps, we are all saving each other after all

No matter how much we cling to hope our stories seldom end as we expect.

But I hope reading will give him something to look forward to, a reason to fight. I want to believe reading will fill him with courage.

Sang Ly, we are literature—our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human. So

Believing is not enough, Sang Ly. If you want to resurrect hope, doing is the most important" p. 33

Sang Ly, we are literature—our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human. So, yes. It will do that.

we are literature- our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human. p. 93

Stories teach us to not give up hope because there are times in our own journey when we mustn't give up hope. They teach endurance because in our lives we are meant to endure. They carry messages that are older than the words themselves, messages that reach beyond the page.

accolades, let us simply remember to: LaughMore, for laughter is the window through which we glimpse the joy of God; HopeMore, because tomorrow life will give us another chance; GiveMore, for when we share our time, we share our most prized possession; ForgiveMore, because as we forgive others, we learn to also forgive ourselves; and LoveMore, for while faith may have the power to move mountains, love has the remarkable power to change the human heart.

Just when we think we have our own stories figured out," she says, "heroes arise in the most unexpected places.

But if life could be worse, didn't that mean it could also be better?'" As it was, he settled for odd jobs, harvesting occasional crops, living a life that was destined never to rise above the menial. He was proof that the muzzling of motivation only makes for mediocrity, that every man needs a purpose. -The Orphan Keeper

Camron Wright

To me, the rainbow was a profoundly hopeful symbol, separating the the white light of appearances into its multiple spectrum and revealing a hidden dimension. It reminded me of my belief that it was the mission of science to pierce through the layers of everyday reality and penetrate to the truth.

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.

I dreamed that I was loved. I woke and found it true.

I live in fear that the deep waters through which I've passed will overwhelm me. —Mary Lincoln

Someday…I will know that a new world has come into being, the world we dream could set us all free of tyranny, lies, injustice, prejudice, fear and sorrow. "When truth triumphs over all secrecy, we will all sail the silver ships, we will all know the joyful beauty of the Fjord of Tears in autumn, we will choose our families and loves and friends and no evil but only natural process will sunder us.

the present is a reality, and the future is just a possibility!

We cannot assume that the things we want today will make sense for us tomorrow.

no expectations meant no disappointments.

I repeat my motto: poco spero, nulla chiedo." Little I hope, nothing I ask.

Well, I devoutly hope Churchill is safe," Atkins wrote in his dispatch that night, hardly believing that the young man who held so much promise could be so quickly lost. "But I half fear the gods love too much a man, only twenty-four years old, who... is that rare combination, the soldier, the reckless soldier even, and the bookman.

Aware that there was talk of making him a candidate in the presidential election of 1880, Garfield hoped to avoid the grasp of other men's ambitions and to be given a chance to wait for the future. However, he had already lived a long life for a young man and he knew that change came without invitation. Too often bringing loss and sorrow in its wake. This world, he had learned long before, does not seem to be the place to carry out ones' wishes.

Despite the prayers and tears and earnest pleading, and pittiest protests for a hero's fall. Despite the hopeful signs, a heart's misleading. Death cometh after all.