Quotes About Hope

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

People have always said, "Life sucks, and then you die," but Wesley never wanted to believe that. He wanted to believe that life was what you made it. He wanted to believe that anything was possible. But reality was a bitch that he was only beginning to understand.

He squeezed his eyes shut and sent up a silent prayer.

There's always that peculiar thing that rescues you, the thing that's so hard to name. If I were to locate and then identify all the hellish things we all have to go through in life in order to uncover one minute of happiness, it would take up a lot of space.

If I were to locate and then identify all the hellish things we all have to go through in life in order to uncover one minute of happiness, it would take up a lot of space.

I developed the unprovable theory that the best things in life begin in the rain.

Câte zile f?r? rost! Pline de poveÅŸti, o groaz? de poveÅŸti întunecate. PoveÅŸti terminate, altele abia începute, înfipte-n întunecimea zilei ca o creang? moart?.

Aún era yo la criatura encogida y amargada a la que le han roto un sueño.

La puerta cedió suavemente y entonces supe el secreto del jardín cerrado: solo se abría para los que deseaban ardientemente entrar y tenían la esperanza de conseguirlo.

No se puede escoger la tabla de salvación cuando se esta en plena tempestad

Cuando Dios pone un sueño en nuestro corazón, sabemos que triunfaremos. Cada "no" significa que estamos un paso más cerca del "sí".»

Sadly, the ascent of a black man to the presidency of the United States did not, despite all the talk of hope and a post-racial society, signal progress. Instead, it has led to a situation, not so unlike the era of Jim Crow, where a sense of physical vulnerability is shared across classes in the black community.86

But as sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom observed, "Whiteness defends itself. Against change, against progress, against hope, against black dignity, against black lives, against reason, against truth, against facts, against native claims, and against its own laws and customs.

Look, we all have wishes; granted. But who has wishes granted?

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself.

I swear your love would raise me out of my grave, in my flesh and blood, like Lazarus; hungry for this, and this, and this, your living kiss.

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.

She had never met anyone who was more of a sure thing, sure to stay put in her life now that he'd walked through its door. Now she could unhook her hopes from lost love. Now she didn't have to go looking for a future.

She tried to stare hard past all this, down the road to the patch where this would end badly. But the view was obscured by hope and distance, and by the mist that always lies over the new.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

And who did she have? The thought caught her up short, but then she smiled, remembering the preacher's words. She had the Lord. He was her foundation, and that was enough.

You are speaking of something sacred, something holy. Love is patient and kind. It does not envy or boast. It casts out pride, selfishness and anger. It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres and never fails.