Quotes About Hope

Espero la cosecha de mi sueño sirva como inspiracion a todos!" he enthused via Twitter. "I hope the harvest of my dream serves as inspiration to all!

Job's hope will be confirmed by the vision of God: "I myself shall see him."19 Not as an enemy or even a stranger20 but as a friend, someone close to him. Job reaffirms his conviction that he will see God with "his own eyes." This hope causes his heart (literally, his kidney) to burst—that is, it makes him happy in the midst of his trials.

Happy," said Thomas. "When I grow up, I am going to be happy." Mrs. van Amersfoort was about to pull a book from the shelf, but turned in surprise. She looked at Thomas with a smile and said, "That is a damn good idea. And do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.

Man is the only animal who knows that he is going to die. And so some people sustain themselves with the notion that this short life is only a beginning, that there is an endless party afterwards with music and angels somewhere up there in the exosphere.

Sis, you said in your last letter that you did not know as you ever would sees me again, that may be the case, but I hope not. At any rate you must not think that untill you are ablidge to, and if it shood be the case I am in hopes that we may meat hearafter wheir their is no way, but let ous both hope for the best. It will be time anough to get downhearted when the worst has com.

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

No one can be free who believes freedom is coming.

Daylight was coming outside, but it was not only that: courage cast its own light.

We cannot know. But sometimes there is kindness, and sometimes there is love.

Perhaps in the darkest times all we can do is refuse to be part of the darkness.

All the roads are dark. Only at the end is there a hope of light.

I am afraid to try for more light lest it mean more dark.

EVENTUALLY, MORNING CAME. Morning always comes. There are always losses in the night, a price paid for light.

We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is.

He had a sense—honed by experience—that what he'd contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67]

I am always, endlessly, hoping to be surprised." "Then I wish it for you.

The lesson of her days, Dianora thought, was simply this: that love was not enough. Whatever the songs of the troubadours might say. Whatever hope it might seem to offer, love was simply not enough to bridge the chasm in her world.

The devout say we must trust in Jad. I have come to believe life is easier for them. Reversals are more easily dealt with when there is faith.

Perhaps as often as we dream of things we wish might come to be, we dream of what we wish had been otherwise. We are carried forward through time, but our minds take us back.

Another journey lay ahead, home at the end of it.

Here the world is all the world may be

The land is never truly dead. It can always come back. Or what is the meaning of the cycle of seasons and years?" She wiped her tears away and looked at him. His expression in the darkness was much too sad for a moment such as this. She wished she knew a way to dispel that sorrow, and not only for tonight. He said, "That is mostly true, I suppose. Or true for the largest things. Smaller things can die. People, dreams, a home.

If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.

Det finns mörker överallt just nu, svarade han. Vi kan inte undvika det, endast skingra det, och det blir inte lätt. I själva faran ligger kanhända vårt hopp om fri väg.