Quotes About Hope

When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us every time, no matter how many times we've fallen before. I hope you will remember that the next time you fail.

she said things I already knew but needed to hear again. How in darkness, we are waiting. How it is in the times that we must search hardest for the light that we are most profoundly transformed.

enough compassion to make us feel safe within our broken need, and enough wisdom to hold on to hope.

Not how the kittens suffered during those weeks they were wandering inside the dark building with no way out—though surely there's something there too—but how they saved themselves. How frightened those kittens were, and yet how they persisted. How when two strangers offered up their palms, they stepped in.

So many books have saved my life. I never quite imagined that a guidebook would

You have a bundle on your head, sweet pea. And though that bundle may be impossible for you to see right now, it's entirely visible to me. You aren't torn. You're only just afraid.

The unifying theme is resilience and faith.

all right is almost always where we eventually land, even if we fuck up entirely along the way.

Not a single one of us knows what the future holds. The unexpected happens even when we've got everything mapped out.

One hot afternoon during the era in which you've gotten yourself ridiculously tangled up with heroin, you will be riding the bus and thinking what a worthless piece of crap you are when a little girl will get on the bus holding the strings of two purple balloons. She'll offer you one of the balloons, but you won't take it because you believe you no longer have a right to such tiny beautiful things. You're wrong. You do.

mysterious starlight that guided you this far guide you onward into whatever crazy beauty awaits.

You know how alchoholics who go to AA are always using that phrase "one day at a time"? They say that because to say "I will never drink again" is just too damn much. It's big an hard and bound to fail.

Even if you get the dream, you don't know if it will stay true.

You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

I want your lives to have purpose & passion. I wish to meet all of you so I can tell you how much I love all of you.

Who cares if one more light goes out? In a sky of a million stars It flickers, flickers

When you suffered it all And your spirit is breaking You're growing desperate from the fight Remember your love And you always will be This melody will always bring You right back home

If you got the chance, you acted. If you sat back and waited and hoped that something good would come along and save you, or fix what you were too frightened or weak or stupid to fix for yourself, you could wait a lifetime and still be trapped.

Hope, like the dim glow from a flashlight with a dying battery, lingered.

Hope springs eternal in the town of dreams...and so does despair and humiliation.

This means that I can do whatever I really want. God is always with me. There is no thing as a loser after all.

Don't quit. It will happen one day.

We have no hope if we cannot prove uncle cynic wrong.

Chetan Bhagat