Quotes About Hope

Keep your expectations simple and you almost always get what you want,

We are both on a journey and we are both in love and that's all anyone can hope for in life.

It's like Michael Cunningham says in The Hours: Happiness is believing that you're gonna be happy. It's hope.

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

But you were a classic middle child, and you did well in school and your whole life you were labeled "the hope," the one who would get away.

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and if anyone was ever going to live eternally in the light, I think it would be you.

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

The world fell out of love with love at some point and

A heart doesn't just break for no reason.

She says hello and I say hello and it defies all logic—I lost everyone I ever loved, everyone—but somehow my heart is intact. It ticks madly, just like hers.

I know. Life isn't fair. But just once, I wanted love to be fair. I did everything right. Everything. And now I'm losing you, aren't I?

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. Only a monster would lock a bird in here and call himself an animal lover.

What we want, of course, what lies in the cupboard marked 'important,' is connection, love: If the deepest source of human hunger had a name, that would be it; if the boxes of constraint in which so many women live could be smashed to bits, that would be the tool, the sledgehammer that shatters emptiness and uncovers the hope buried beneath it.

That was my favorite line: I'll drink less when things get better.

hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even though it's painful and you're afraid.

Not long ago I heard a woman in her ninth month of sobriety say that before she quit drinking, she had only two emotions, anxiety and despair. "Now I have, like, too many to count," she said, "and some of them suck, but some of them are really, really good." Almost everyone in the room knew what she meant.

Sometimes I look back and think my whole adult life has been underlined with a feeling of waiting – waiting for something to happen, waiting for circumstances to change, waiting for the right man or the right job or the right shoes-and-clothes-and-haircut to swoop down from above and change me, to infuse me from the outside in with a feeling of well-being and validation and peace of mind

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in the externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things, but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even if it's painful and you're afraid.

I love reading books because... 1. books teach you how to live. 2. books teach you how to love. 3. books encourage you and give you hope. 4, books lift you up when you are down. 5. books take you to places and times you could never otherwise visit

Faith is a kind of imagination. It's imagining a world we can't see, but hope is there.

Nubia closed her eyes and prayed silently. 'Dear Lord, I am not afraid to die. But please help us do the right thing. Amen.

Never. Ever. Give. Up. No doesn't always mean no. Sometimes it's just takes a little work to find the yes.