Quotes About Hope

If winter wrote an autobiography, it would be mostly about the spring.

Winter is on my head, and eternal spring is in my heart.

It is a question not of hope or despair, but of truth; not of optimism nor of Pessimism, but of wisdom. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

A woman's hopes are hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

Worry bankrupts the spirit.

Worry whomps and wails on weary souls.

Justices continue to think and can change. I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow.

This, then, is the state of the Union: Free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.

Been down so long, down don't worry me.

It's so curious: one can resist tears and "behave" very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

I don't think then of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there.

Hope is the physician of each misery.

Hope is grief's best music.

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will.

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Never give up trying, wherever you may be, and whatever may be the threatening ills which rise against you. What if gods and men and the whole world oppose you? There is always some place where the soul can be itself. There is no defeat except from within... There is no power either in heaven or earth that can successfully oppose the onward course of the perfectly determined soul.

Hope, not fear, is the creative principle in human affairs... Those who are taught in this spirit will be filled with life and hope and joy, able to bear their part in bringing to mankind a future less somber than the past, with faith in the glory that human effort can create.

Let us be like that unafraid bird Lighted upon a twig that swings Feeling it yield but singing on— For knowing that he has wings!