Quotes About Hope

If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them? Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.

And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for a place where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time.

I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost. And when a life ends as mine will end, no one can persuade me that the cost was not worth what it has brought me at last.

If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly ... but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in. I follow [God], I believe [God], because I want to live in the world that [God] has shown me.

I hope you had fun, I hope you had a nice, nice time being happy, Ender. It might be the last time in your life.

Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.

Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand.

It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.

Just because your former understanding of the purpose of your life is contradicted doesn't mean that you have to decide there is no purpose.

Will people really go?' 'People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

Saving the human race is a frantic one. Or a tedious one. It all depends on what stage of the process you're taking part in.

Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.

I'm just saying things never get so bad we can't do something to make them better.

saying you don't know or care about God is the same as saying you believe he doesn't exist, because if you had even a hope that he existed, you would care very much.

there's no fear of future in the song of life, just the ever-joyful present moment.

There are miracles even reactivity can't pull off, Ender

It was astonishingly light, to hold all the hope and future of a great race within it.

I didn't want to see you. They told me. I was afraid that I'd still love you. I hoped that you would. My fear, your wish- both granted.

People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

Someday, they think, I may be like this woman, and I'll hope for forgiveness and another chance.

It may not be the happiness we had before, it may feel like a lesser version of it for a time, we may not even feel it some days at all. But we have to believe more will come. We have to hope.

Maybe not a home. Maybe that won't come until later. But I believe it will come, Mar. With your brains in this operation, how could it not?" Edimar