Quotes About Hope

Perchè l'uomo, per vivere, ha bisogno di un minimo di aria respirabile, di una certa dose di ossigeno e di illusioni.

Up till now, I thought my wife was in some camp in France, in the custody of French soldiers. To learn she is in an uncivilised country, in conditions that are probably atrocious, without money or food and with people whose language she does not even know, is unbearable. It is now no longer a matter of getting her out of a camp sooner rather than later but of saving her life.

Ci sono quelle che aspettano lo stesso uomo, e quelle che aspettano un uomo diverso da quello che è partito, disse fra sé, e tutte restano deluse.

They looked around and expected some miracle: a car, a truck, anything that would take them. But nothing came. So they headed out of Paris on foot, past the city gates, dragging their bags behind them in the dust, then on into the suburbs, into the countryside, all the while thinking, "This can't be happening! I must be dreaming!

Si supiéramos lo que recogeremos por adelantado, ¿quién sembraría su campo?

So they headed out of Paris on foot, past the city gates, dragging their bags behind them in the dust, then on into the suburbs, into the countryside, all the while thinking, 'This can't be happening! I must be dreaming!' Like all the others, the Michauds started walking.

It wasn't exactly what you'd call fear, rather a strange sadness – a sadness that had nothing human about it any more, for it lacked both courage and hope. This was how animals waited to die. It was the way fish caught in a net watch the shadow of the fisherman moving back and forth above them.

Often when a physician cannot imagine what else to do for someone who is feeling helpless and hopeless—for whom life has no value—I find that love is the answer.

Sometimes God Calms the Storm…Sometimes He Lets the Storm Rage and Calms His Child.

In living with, rather than relentlessly fighting their cancer, they ultimately live longer.

for what it is worth, when people have been fighting cancer for a long time, as you have, there often comes a point at which they may live longer if they decide to live with their cancer rather than continue to fight against their cancer.

Faith is a funny thing. It's easy to believe while life is rolling merrily along. But in times of trial, it's tempting to turn away from God. Yet that's when we need him the most.

A wish for a future no longer tainted by the past. A future that held joy, not regret. A future that offered love instead of loneliness.

But my core belief—that no matter what happens, God is with me—never wavers. And it's a great comfort to know that once you turn your life over to him, you never have to face anything alone again." He

I've learned never to discount possibilities because of the odds—because all things are possible with God.

God doesn't expect perfection. All he asks is that we learn from our mistakes and try to do better in the future. He forgives us far more easily than we often forgive ourselves. He also heals the brokenhearted and saves those whose spirit is crushed.

Skip had loved that lighthouse—and all it symbolized. Light in the darkness. Guidance through turbulent waters. Salvation for the floundering. Hope for lost souls.

Sometimes he's most evident in small gestures of kindness. And those gestures can be found even in the worst situations.

Sometimes I felt I would die by wishing it when I went to sleep but I always woke up again and found I was still there. Every morning finding I'm still me, that's hell. Well, get out of hell then! The gate's open and I'm holding it! I can't. I'm hell, myself.

Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.

I feel I'm at the end of something — everything is going to be different — and terrible. That doesn't sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me.

You've obviously never been in love. I have actually. And awfully . And—always—without hope—I've never had my love reciprocated ever.

What greater torment than to see that light, and then to see it eternally withdrawn?

Waiting in fear is surely one of the most awful of human tribulations.