Quotes About Hope

The strait still eluded them but, God willing, they would find it, and reach the Spice Islands

Prince Henry offered a bold reply, "You cannot find a peril so great that the hope of reward will not be greater.

and Santiago, to be used

With him went Spain's best hope for defending itself against Drake.

saw it: the outlet leading west, just as he prayed it would. Magellan had finally found his strait.

Santiago washed ashore before breaking up.

God willing, I will soon be seeing you, whether by way of Portugal or Castile

sparing their lives, they grasped the desperate situation they now faced.

The castaways spent eight days in more or less the same area, disoriented, dispirited, waiting for pieces of the wreck

Continue to focus on what is beautiful and good, even while the whole world appears to be falling apart all around you.

Humanity is under siege.

Our ship of dreams must be anchored, or else it will float away!

The world is undergoing a kind of nervous breakdown. The reason the world is coming apart is that it needs an openhearted and truthful concept of Divinity.

Rescue will come as a welcome interruption of…the survival voyage.

Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.

The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.

Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Si je n'avais pas ce cahier, je crois que je me serais lentement laissée aller au désespoir. Je ne savais pas que les mots peuvent sauver. Aujourd'hui, je le sais : il maintiennent le lien à soi. Ils permettent de ne pas s'égarer dans la nuit profonde de la folie.

Le plus difficile, c'est la non-certitude, cette probabilité, même infime, que vous puissiez la retrouver encore. Cette brèche vous laisse dans l'errance, vous empêche de commencer à faire votre deuil.

Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.

And all of a sudden I saw that if life seems awfully petty most of the time, every now and then there is something noble and beautiful and almost pure that lifts us suddenly out of the pettiness and lets us share in it a little.

And, as the tiny lights drift into the blackness, the people pray that others around the world will remember Hiroshima and work for world peace. The atom bomb is too terrible a weapon. It must not drop again.