Quotes About Hope

Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the old maps: it is from this new way of seeing the present that hope emerges for the future...Let us begin to imagine the worlds we would like to inhabit, the long lives we will share, and the many futures in our hands.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

That night (as on all nights), when the lights get turned out, Don and I lie on our backs side by side with his left hand cradling my right. "I worry that this sickness is taking over your life, Bear," I murmur in the dark now permeated by a bathroom nightlight he has just affixed. "I have no other life," he responds while gently stroking my fingers. "I don't know what to hope for," I whisper. "Let's hope for a good summer," he says.

Remission is a word that signifies absolution. As Google will guess if you begin typing it, the term "remission of cancer" derives from and echoes "the remission of sins.

All men dream, all men have a dream, all men want a dream.... I have none, What shall I put in its stead? I do not know.Melancholy is my only companion, and she does not dream either.

here?" "John says that all things work for the best," Wealthy said with a faint smile. It was something she had forgotten lately. "I do hope he's right.

Father O'Sullivan.

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

She wanted an Angel of Music . . . an angel who would make her believe in herself at last. I'd been the Angel of Doom for the khanum. There was no reason in the world why I could not be the Angel of Music for Christine. I couldn't hope to be a man to her, I couldn't ever be a real, breathing, living man waking at her side and reaching out for her . . . But I could be her angel' -Erik

I am not forsaken! I'm no longer alone in the darkness! Before my eyes I see a thousand little devils lighting black candles along the path which leads toward the edge...the blindingly beautiful edge.

I understand it now. People may move away, but they can remain in your heart. And if you're really lucky, your soul mate will find their way back again one day

Sometimes it takes a long, long time before we can glean enrichment from the deprivation and suffering which has baffled and overwhelmed us. —Mildred Tengbom

really hadn't wanted to miss

baby from her

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter.

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience – and laughter.

Love is always enough.

anything else?

Terrible events," she said, in that quiet, gentle voice of hers, "are sometimes not for us to understand. We must put them away somewhere and drain their energy so we can give good energy to our lives." She

But what if God wasn't behind us, but in front of us, in front of our dreams...making a way for them not because we deserve it...but because He just delights in us?

Because love doesn't stop just because you run. Love keeps reaching out. Keeps believing, even when it feels impossible.

Then suddenly he reached out and took her hand. "Why did you do that?" she asked softly. He looked up at the snowflakes, let them fall, melt on his face, turning it shiny. "Because when it's slippery out, sometimes we just need someone to hang on to until we find our footing.

We are Marshalls. And we are not alone.' 'When all else is done, God is enough, everything and always.