Quotes About Hope

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

You'll come back To me . . . It's written in the stars, you see, you'll come back. You'll come back, it's a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

They dwell in my light, while I dwell in unbearable darkness, the source of that light.

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

I dreamed what all losers dream, about one day writing a book that would bring me fame and fortune.

Often the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself.

There is nothing better than imagining other worlds," he said, "to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.

Aspirar a algo que no tendrás jamás, ¿es ésta la agudeza del más generoso entre los deseos?

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep. Hence the Jews. Divine providence has given them to us, and so, by God, let us use them, and pray there's always some Jew to fear and to hate. We need an enemy to give people hope.

we never cease hoping--and thus did our Judge condemn us to suffer in saecula.' Ferrante asked: 'But what is it that you hope for?' You might as well ask what you will hope for yourself. ...You will hope that a wisp of wind, the slightest swell of the tide, the arrival of a single hungry leech, can return us, atom by atom, to the great Void of the Universe, where we would somehow again participate in the cycle of life.

Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe—with charity—that there is still room for Hope.

Y cuando vives cultivando esperanzas imposibles, ya eres un perdedor. Y cuando te das cuenta, te hundes.

But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A book is a kind of of machine which the reader can freely use as a generator of intellectual stimulation. It is enough that the book should be truly a machine for thinking, that it should generate a variety of possible conclusions without its author's ordaining and limiting them in advance.

No importa la fe que ofrece determinado movimiento, sino la esperanza que propone

Non conta la fede che un movimento propone, conta la speranza che offre. Gratta l'eresia, troverai il lebbroso. E ogni battaglia contro l'eresia vuole solo che il lebbroso rimanga lebbroso.

So must we then read books without faith, which is a theological virtue?" "There are two other theological virtues as well. The hope that the possible is. And charity, toward those who believed in good faith that the possible was.

Anything was possible if the impossible was true.

Ä°nsan olanaks?z umutlar besleyerek yaÅŸad??? sürece zaten bir kaybedendir.

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers.

Sapk?nl???n yan?lg?s? buradad?r. Bir ak?m?n sunduÄŸu inanc?n önemi yoktur; önemli olan sunduÄŸu umuttur.

This is the illusion of heresy. The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only to keep the leper as he is.

the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself

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