Quotes About Hope

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential,not God

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

After all, hope is a form of planning.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.

After all, hope is a form of planning. If our hopes weren't already real within us, we couldn't even hope them.

Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way.

A quote is the essence of a story. We all need stories to convey ideas, justice, anger, humanity, hope, laughter, learning, and whatever makes us understand or feel understood

As he always said, "If I don't know what will happen tomorrow, it could be wonderful!

There is power in proximity. Get close to the problem you feel drawn to. Change the narrative. Stay hopeful. Be willing to do uncomfortable things.

MY LAST HOPE IS to open up the road—literally. So far it's been overwhelmingly masculine turf. Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it.

Laughter is a rescue.

So I sat down and began to make notes about many trips, past and present, that left me amazed by what is, angered by what isn't, and hooked on what could be.

It seems more hopeful to talk about what came before patriarchy--and could show us a way beyond it.

If I don't know what will happen tomorrow, it could be wonderful.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel... Taking to the road — by which I mean letting the road take you — changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories —in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.

I thought, When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.

Altogether I've seen enough change to have faith that more will come.

It wasn't the victory of one man or the death of another. It was the death of the future, and of our youth, because we might be rather old before the conservers left and the compassionate men came back. Saturday.

Having lived his life in the belief that something great could be just around every corner, did he realize for the first time that no more corners could be turned? p.18

I became a person whose friends and hopes were as spread out as my life. It just felt natural that the one common element in that life was the road.