Quotes About Hope

Love will find a way.

I'll start with the fairy tale.

Blue skies can be misleading.

You never stop thinking you might have beaten it somehow, and there were moments when we thought we had. Your husband can be dead years, and you can't stop thinking how you might have beaten it. Or how they could have left ten minutes earlier, or the next morning. Or that damn lighthouse could have flickered through the fog.

Compreendo que o sonho de pobre é sonhar, apenas sonhar.

Rose once jotted down a quotation she attributed to her mother: "I don't know which is more heartbreaking, a dream un[ful]filled or a dream realized.

During the darkest days, a saying took hold in Kansas: "there is no god west of Salina.

I think we receive a great deal what we expect in this world. -Laura Ingalls Wilder

Sweet By and By,

It seemed like five minutes later we were here, the Land That Time Forgot, watching the removal van disappear round the corner like a last hope.

Through this most lonely and disheartening of all winters, I have found my greatest inspiration and encouragement in the blossoming plants in our windows... Insignificant little things these are, I realize; yet they have seemed to reassure me that sunshine and rain, the laws of life and growth, seedtime and harvest, are in a general way dependable; that our earthly heritage is still rich in possibilities.

It seems impossible to dispense with that little word hope, even though at times we are conscious of the pain of hopes too long deferred.

The last few days, including today, of wind and dust have finished any lingering hope of wheat for us and I feel myself that we simply threw away the carefully hoarded barley seed. Hardly any hope that it had time to sprout or could survive if it had under present 'dust bowl' conditions. I always said I was the only one who could remember those dreadful days - for any practical purpose. People have simply assumed it couldn't happen again (1951)

We are homesteading a claim here in old No Man's Land... In spite of droughts and hot winds, blizzards, dirt storms, hail storms, grasshoppers, and in fact almost every form of discouragement, the fascination of being so near the beginning of things, of finding ourselves not quite mastered by various calamities, has held us. We have always felt that if we could hold out a few more years we should succeed; our homestead would really become a home.

The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can't fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly.

But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].

And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.

There is no better boost in the present than an invitation to the future.

I don't feel sorry for myself, Beck. Lots of people have shitty parents and roaches in the cabinets and stale, raw Pop-Tarts for dinner and a TV that barely works and a dad who doesn't care when his son doesn't come home during a national disaster. The thing is, I'm lucky. I had the bookstore.

He laughs and hugs me and says that I shouldn't believe anyone who tells me it's gonna get better. "Ride the wave," he says. "Don't wait for it. Don't fear it. Just ride it.

It would be nice to have something alive to hold on to right now, something to love me, something with a beating heart that I can feel, something to be with me as I sit here, in hell, trying to figure it out.

the key to life is to believe in something that matters, something big and beautiful, something more profound than fame, money.

They're in their own world, where good things happen, a quarter mile and a million light years away.

It's a pathetic thing, hope, hard to kill.