Quotes About Hope

I write that one sentence really tiny, like if she doesn't look hard enough she might not see it, like if I write it full size then it might be full-size true. And it's hard to imagine that full-size thing truly happening to me.

From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy

Let me know what I am able and trust that behind all events no matter how painful there is a reason from which truth can come.

Imagine that your child is born with wings.

Anyway, I thought, it's wishful thinking, all this talk of ghosts. If the dead wandered among us, their spirits still present on this earth, what need would we have for grief? Scary as it is, it's what we hope for. How else can we go on living?

The unexpected thing, the miraculous thing, is when a car that's been shattered in a crash, that's been left in the rain to rust for years at a time, can be coaxed to growl to a start and slowly begin rolling down the hill.

There would be hard times, but what did I care if we had hard times? The branches of my love were wide, and they caught the rain and the snow. We would be okay, the two of us together. We would be okay.

Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.

Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.' - All my old loves will be returned to me

It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.

Go and you will see that nothing is as wonderful as our dreams can make it

much to leave us where we are. So, he uses what happens to us to always, always draw us to him.

Dear Lord, we know that You are a Father and that you love your Son. [...] We know how deep Your love is, that You know if even a hair falls from our head. Lord, we plead with You for this child. Be with the doctors that will take care of him. [...] Keep him in Your care, Lord, we pray. Keep him healthy. Let us enjoy him again. Amen.

Once, she believed that she was only waiting for something to happen to her. And yet now it seems that something has begun around her. The thing she has been waiting for?though she cannot say what it is?has started making itself felt in the very air around her. She does not know how to behave, she realizes, nor what to expect. She does not even know anymore what to hope for.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

I act like someone in a bomb shelter trying to raise everyone's spirits.

I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while the place that I've arrived at in my life may not precisely be everyone's idea of heavenly, I could swear sometimes -- I hear angels sing.

I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while the place that I've arrived at in my life may not precisely be everyone's idea of heavenly, I could swear sometimes — I hear angels sing.

You love them until they can't feel loved anymore, then you keep on loving them as if they were still there—as if there's been a reprieve at the last moment and fate has reversed itself. It

I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while the place that I've arrived at in my life may not precisely be everyone's idea of heavenly, I could swear sometimes - if I'm quiet enough - I can hear the angels sing. Either that or I've screwed up my medication.

I decided to ride the lightning instead of extinguishing the light of life that had once shown out of my eyes.

Take your broken heart and make it to the heart.

Ich finde es schade, dass es nicht Mark ist - er hätte es sein können. Er hätte es sein sollen. Es hätte etwas bedeuten können. Vielleicht nicht viel, aber sichtlich mehr.

For Billie and Barack, who make my world a better place. Despite the obstacles you've had to overcome--whether posed by my antics or the uber-unfortunate antics of the Tea Partiers and the rest of their distressing ilk--long may you wave.