Quotes About Hope

If you are at least trying to make sense of the senseless, then you are moving toward the Light. What we live through and continue in spite of is our spiritual lesson.

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure by; Has burst all flowery chains by which men aye have been enthralled; Has been stone-deaf to voices sweet, that softly, sadly called; Has scorned the flashing goblet with the bubbles on its brim; Has turned his back on jeweled hands that madly beckoned him; Has, in a word, condemned himself to follow out his plan By stern and lonely labor--and has died, a conquered man!

Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

I will cling to the old rugged cross,And exchange it some day for a crown.

Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!

The primary aim of all religions and philosophical systems is to furnish an antidote to the certainty of death.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

Hope is despair, overcome.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

The future of our children is on our knees -Precious Musanu

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

That was the problem with expectations: they were good only as long as they lasted. Better not to expect anything at all. Better to join the cold-blooded, big-eyed creatures slithering in the mud at the bottom of the canal, animals that didn't have to worry about love and hope and expectation. Because as soon as you grew two legs and learned to walk upright, you were pretty much doomed to a lifetime of disappointments.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.