Quotes About Hope

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

Amazing what two slices of processed bread and a thin layer of stale cheese can do. Unfed, the most he could say for himself was that he'd somehow managed to survive the past. With a cheese sandwich inside him, he was very nearly ready to face the future. Whichever future it turned out to be.

I sincerely hope, that you will grow up to be both a hero and a magician - brave and clever, though there's excellent grounds for saying the two qualities are mutually exclusive. But what the hell.

Eve still marveled on a daily basis at the speed with which her own life had changed. A year ago, she'd been lost and flailing, and now she was found. She wanted to call it a miracle, but it was simpler than that, and a lot more ordinary; she'd met a kind and decent man who loved her.

the big day hadn't gone the way she'd hoped, not that big days ever did. Birthdays

I was supposed to have a son.

In his heart of hearts, Jack London knew that we can never build a fire. Not when we really need to.

She had arrived in dirty rags and had cooked up a striking outfit for herself, out of relief donations

When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.

salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about dreams,' she corrected you, 'you're referring to your pathetic bourgeoisie ambitions. Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

they were straining so desperately for admission to paradise that they had forgotten that paradise had always been their address.

A better world has gotta start somewhere. Why not with you and me?

For the person courageous enough to see it out, disorientation always leads to love.

dreams don't come true, dreams are true.

Hope springs eternal and all that, yet isn't it a fact that when we give up and quit hoping; genuinely, sincerely quit hoping, things usually change for the better? Zen masters say that when we become convinced that the human situation is hopeless, we approach serenity, the ideal state of mind.

for while we must go forever in despair, let us also go forever in the enjoyment of the world.

God says, the check's in the mail.

Spring has a way of erasing doubt.

God says the check is in the mail

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.