Quotes About Hope

Grief might be easy if there wasn't still such beauty--would be far simpler if the silver maple didn't thrust its leaves into flame, trusting that spring will find it again.

A skilled surgeon knows that cuts have to be made in order to operate, but the skilled surgeon also knows that the cuts are temporary and will heal. The end result of the operation is worth the initial pain, and the patient should heal to a better state than they were in before the surgery.

Turn on a light if it's dark outside, pray if darkness hits you from inside

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university

It seemed we Chechens spend our energies building our houses and our lives, only to have the devastated and to start rebuilding them again.

Whoever allows the world to become his biggest concern has nothing to do with Allah, and Allah will instil four qualities into his heart: anxiety which will never leave him, business which he will never be free from; poverty which he will never rid himself of, and hope which he will never fulfil. (Tabarani.) Additionally,

What the four seasons of the year mean to the European, the one season of the monsoon means to the Indian. It is preceded by desolation; it brings with it hopes of spring; it has the fullness of summer and the fulfillment of autumn all in one.

In green heaven's fields I saw the sickle of the new moon Remembered by sowing and by harvest, And said: O Kismet, you sleep and the sun blossoms The reply: Do not be as hopeless as the past. She repeated the last line: 'Do not be as hopeless as the past.

Whichever way you look there is a din of tumult; Whichever way you go there are flames and torches; For tonight this world is heavy with labour pain; To give birth to a world which will forever remain.)

Yahan khuda hai, wahan khuda hai... idhar khuda hai, udhar khuda hai... jahan nahin khuda hain, wahan kal khudega... Contributed

In the name of Nanak, By the hope that faith doth instill, By the Grace of God, We bear the world nothing but good will.

We must live. Or what have we suffered for? Will these years have been for nothing?

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

The city was like a fish dying on hard pavement, hopelessly gasping for air.