Quotes About Hope

It's okay if you're not exactly happy, I think. Maybe you're on the way to being happy

Christmas is a state of mind.

I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

That's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.

But the reflections came clear to me then, come still in quiet moments when past meets present so smoothly the seams disappear and time itself turns fluid. Sometimes I wish time stayed solid, in separable chunks as distinct as the sound of the ticking clock on my mantel. In truth, though, we break all boundaries, hurtling forward through hope and backward on the trail made by memory.

I felt, for sure, a prayer come through my grandmother's hands, a language of pulse and palm lines, and the prayer said this: May you hold her, and in holding her, hold us, forever down the line.

I think I will actually miss it a little, this time of pure potential.

And I saw ans still see everything that I do have, but no matter what, there is always the itch of what gets lost.

That was how it always was with Colleen: No matter how sad she felt, there was always this little bit of hope - like a speck of glitter caught in your eyelash - that never went away, no matter what.

There are plenty of bad people in the world," he said. "Too many to count. But there are good people, too.

But eleven-year-old Max Rosen was determined to stay alive.

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Max gripped Zena's hand and they ran for their lives. Their only hope was a nearby swamp. They could hide in the mud and slime, with the snakes and the snapping turtles and the razor-sharp grass. But

And a feeling came over him, as if he'd found something he'd lost, something precious. His hope.

There would be more storms ahead, John knew. But somehow they'd all made it through the blizzard. Whatever was coming, they would face it. Maybe that's what it meant to be a pioneer.

You never know what's ahead," Papa would say, his eyes brimming with excitement.

There is goodness in the world, Marcus, and kindness. You cannot forget that." Goodness? Kindness?

But I cheered myself up slightly with the rationalization that all new relationships - even the fictional ones - have obstacles to overcome in the beginning. I would not give up hope on this one. Not yet.

Tu ne souhaites pas réellement sa mort ai je pensé en m'étirant sur le siège arrière. Car si elle meurt tu perds tout espoir de la tuer de tes propres mains. Et ça ce serait vraiment dommage.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.