Quotes About Hope

When Suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

If we have any role at all, I think it's the role of optimism, not blind or stupid optimism, but the kind which is meaningful, one that is rather close to that notion of the world which is not perfect, but which can be improved. In other words, we don't just sit and hope that things will work out; we have a role to play to make that come about.

I feel that there has to be a purpose to what we do. If there was no hope at all, we should just sleep or drink and wait for death. But we don't want to do that. And why? I think something tells us that we should struggle. We don't really know why we should struggle, but we do, because we think it's better than sitting down and waiting for calamity.

Our elders say that the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Don't disparage the day that still has an hour of light in its hand.

My people have a saying which my father often used. A man whose horse is missing will look everywhere even in the roof.

Those who mismanage our affairs would silence our criticism by pretending they have facts not avaliable to the rest of us. Our best weapon against them is not to marshal facts, of which they are truly managers, but passion. Passion is our hope and strenght.

direction, towards a world of bad systems, bad leadership, and bad followership. The question then is, How do we redirect our steps in a hurry? In other words, where do we begin and have the best chance of success?

Nothing is falling apart

If it failed to give them a song, it at least gave them a tongue for sighing.

the words of encouragement which the bedbug was said to have spoken to her children when hot water was poured on them all. She told them not to lose heart because whatever was hot must in the end turn cold.

Puisque j'ai survécu à cette année-là, disait-il toujours, je survivrai à n'importe quoi.

She believed because it was that faith alone that gave her own life any kind of meaning.

God delights to do ... impossible things through improbable people to impart exceeding grace to undeserving recipients.

Whenever anxiety knocks on the door of your heart, answer it with prayer.

Worry and anxiety are not great thoughts; faith in God's promise is.

I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.

Satan is a liar, and depression is his cell phone. Next time he calls, hang up!

She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.

The message, if you think about it this way, is all about taking chances because fate or destiny or God will protect you. Take a risk, have a little faith. It's all about life, not death.

We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday.

Now, the separation between depression and suicide is more crevasse than chasm.

Serafina may think I'm a crazy person, but I'm not. She has her scars, too—and not only the ones I saw when she turned her head and her hair fell aside. We are both living out our lives in a Purgatorio. The difference? I arrived from the Paradiso, once young and married and so in love. But Serafina, she who was born alone in a fever dream of fire? She whose very skin is a tapestry of loss? Serafina, of course, arrived from the Inferno.

Remember that person you wanted to be? There's still time.