Quotes About Hope

Make your future dream a present fact, by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Experiences of pain, loss, fear, anger, and even hatred seem to vanish when you remember that this is a part of the perfect blossoming of natural law; and there will soon be a time for comfort, peace, and love.

suffering is a part of the human condition that no one escapes in their lifetime, and that it may be more despairing for some than others.

those who held on to a vision of the future were the ones throughout this ordeal who seemed to have a better chance for survival.

Quienes están seguros del resultado pueden permitirse esperar, sin ansiedad».

There you have the deferrer's delight. As long as you say maybe, or hope, or wish, you can use these as a rationale for not doing anything now. All wishing and hoping are a waste of time—the folly of fairyland residents.

Michelangelo regarding this subject: "The greater danger is not that our hopes are too high and we fail to reach them, it's that they are too low, and we do.

in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart…. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.

Thoreau's that indicates if you follow your dreams, "You will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The greater danger is not that our hopes are too high and we fail to reach them, it's that they are too low, and we do.

the nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I've flown kites before and I know – sometimes they're gone forever, and sometimes they're just waiting in the middle of the road for you to rescue them. Kites can be lucky or they can be ornery. I've had both kinds, and a lucky kite is definitely worth chasing for.

Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not!

scraps of love torn and tattered faded, scattered trashed threads of hope frayed and tangled broken, mangled dashed backing, buttons yarn and batting quilted tenderly wrapped up in this warm repair my patchwork family

Wendelin Van Draanen

I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compared to the one in my heart.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.