Quotes About Hope

although i know that a wall to happiness is expecting too much happiness

There'll be lawyers in heaven before you see somethin' so good again.

The dominant feeling is that this reign of terror can hardly last long, but that its fall will bury us.

I am slowly giving up hope of politics; Hitler is after all the Chosen One of his people. I do not believe that he is in the least bit shaky, I am slowly beginning to think that his regime can really still last for decades. There is so much lethargy in the German people and so much immorality and above all so much stupidity.

Leave every lady with the impression of friendship, and each and every gentleman with an unrealistic hope of much more.

and even at Christmas, there is nothing to be gained by wishing for what one can't possibly have.

I want whatever God has for me!

Psalms 18:30 and Psalms 34:19.

Maybe these bad things are good things because they build our faith for what is to come.

I believed in our vows. I just prayed that one day, we could get back to the 'for better ' part because we were drowning in all of this for worse.

But even if there's a chance we can save her, we have to try

I realized then that thinking about what my life might have been was an impossible thing to consider, because in thinking about what my life would have been with Mama still in it, I would have to completely disregard the knowledge of what my life was now, with all its troubles and dangers but also all its miraculous gifts.

T[his isn't just "another day, another dollar." It's more like "another day, another miracle." (213)

One woman couldn't change the world. She could just make small parts of it better.

How can hope live in the same words as the most crushing despair?

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

A man who could not see the end of hisprovisional existence was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning

Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

I called to the Lord from my narrow prison and He answered me in the freedom of space.

In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured. To be sure, people tend to see only the stubble fields of transitoriness but overlook and forget the full granaries of the past into which they have brought the harvest of their lives: the deeds done, the loves loved, and last but not least, the sufferings they have gone through with courage and dignity.

Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn life's negative aspects into something positive or constructive. In other words, what matters is to make the best of any given situation.