Quotes About Hope

La esperanza es que, dentro de no muchos años, el cerebro humano y las máquinas computadoras estén unidos de un modo muy estrecho —escribió—, y que la asociación resultante piense como ningún cerebro humano lo haya hecho jamás y procese datos de un modo nunca atisbado por las máquinas de gestión de la información que conocemos hoy.

And man is capable of standing superhuman suffering if only he feels sure that there is some point and purpose to it, while much less pain will seem intolerable of devoid of meaning.

endless soaring toy-rocket dreams and schemes that let out a sad, weak 'pop' at their high climax point and then flake apart as they tumble toward some thorn patch that's also a hatching ground for baby snakes

Our faith was a flickering flame.

Any seed or insect or lizard or mammal that found itself in LA had to believe that there was a chance to thrive. Living in Southern California was like waking up in a children's book titled Would Be If I Could Be.

You can't fight with death, all you can do is stand your ground and hope that the foundation don't fall out from under you.

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.

looking for that sweet oblivion that all young men, white and black, thought could save them from the greater darkness that dogged their heels.

The first thing a black man and a poor man learns is that trouble is all he's got so that's what he has to work with.

Sometimes you're hoping that things will be different, that men and women will change over the years and become those good, if hard, folks that the preachers talk about. But it never changes. And if something does get good for a while you could be sure that it will turn sour before you have time to get any real pleasure.

Scared is the lamp that lights the way.

Most of human life is defined by waiting

Black men of our day were never told , the skies the limit. Our limits were more like the inner lid of a coffin.

But when you live a life among desperate men and women, any door you open might have Pandora written all over the other side.

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

Me, on whom, in case of failure — which Heaven forefend! —

he at no time thought himself out of the Black Douglas's reach, any more than the good Christian supposes himself out of reach of the wiles of the devil; while every new temptation, instead of confirming his hope, seems to announce that the immediate retreat of the Evil One will be followed by some new attack yet more cunningly devised.

sufficient for the day was the evil thereof.

But all that a king can give to a people is a smile, such as the sun bestows on the snowy peaks of the Grampian mountains, as distant and as ineffectual. Alas

A lover persevere in his suit under very discouraging circumstances. Affection can withstand very severe storms of rigor, but no a long polar frost of downright indifference. Don't, even with your attractions, try the experiment upon any lover whose faith you value. Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, but no altogether without it.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Prayer is the key to each new day and the lock for every night.

Life is full of disappointments, but we have to take some risks. None of us can predict the future, for only God knows what's to come.