Quotes About Hope

Hasta en la sombra más profunda podemos buscar, y tal vez encontrar, una luz oculta.

Nothing is funny about war. But one must find reasons to laugh anyways, especially when nothing is funny. Sometimes joy is the only defense you have, and your only weapon. Remember that" -Sister Bert

Hoping so hard that there was one boy out there who wanted you as much as you wanted him, because you wouldn't know what you would do with yourself if this were not true.

Thinking that you can't protect the ones you love, you have to hope they're smart enough to save themselves, And hope, well. Who had any of that to spare?

She flew higher and higher into the plush and generous darkness, the long forgiving night, until she slipped through a star, a doorway, and heaven welcomed her in.

That seemed to be the most horrible thing of all, that you could lose something so precious to you, something you loved, and still go on.

I know you didn't have much time with Sam. And it isn't fair. But that doesn't mean it was any less real. That's something to hold on to, so hold on to it" -Loretta

And Jaime would say, "I am getting ready for my next beginning.

Wanting everything seems like an excellent way to set yourself up for disappointment. But what if you accept the yearning, what if the yearning is the only thing that can satisfy?

Forge ahead despite your pain and give meaning to your loss.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

having once committed the sin of despair she was determined to believe in the blessing of life ('And when God walks beside you/You are not afraid . . .').

Beyond this Door, Heaven waits.

I know the grim probability of my own future. The odds are high that the best of me has already been ripped away and that id I don't keep hold of myself I will lose what's left.

this is no place for miracles

Why should I just sit around hoping it happens when maybe I can do something to make it happen?

But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came. My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep. (Job)

So sometimes what takes you down can be used to raise you up again.

So I wait for him because I always have, because out of all the moments that went wrong, I think there were just as many that went right, just as much love and heat and want as hurt, disappointment, and cruelty. I want to believe there's a balance here, that out of this tragedy will come some good, and there will be a happy ending.

My biggest mistake is in believing there are limits to how bad it can get.

Yes, she believed God loved her. But if this whole fiasco was His idea of love . . .

want to know is what lies ahead.

God had not turned a deaf ear. He had been waiting for her to listen, as He always did.

Lauraine Snelling