Quotes About Hope

The waves dying a natural death on the beach seemed to have traveled vast distances bearing neither life nor hope.

The morning sun shines over the prison wall, And drives away the shadows and miasma of hopelessness. A life-giving breeze blows across the earth. A hundred imprisoned faces smile once more.

I've never cared for humming verse But what to do inside a jail? I'll hum some verse to pass long days I'll hum and wait till freedom comes.

When an evil threatens us, and it is impossible to ward it off, why do we give up ourselves to the unprofitable fear of it, which is yet even more tormenting than the evil itself?

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil.

I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.

I really hope he shapes up, you know? He's got a good head on his shoulders when he's not trying to give himself alcohol poisoning.

Stop crying about dying, and start smiling about living.

Freedom in its existential struggle, greater than the tragedy of fear.

Heaven does not tell stories of oppressed peoples.

It always seems impossible until it is done.' NELSON MANDELA

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.

When legends die the dreams end. When the dreams end there is no more greatness.

Hope is determination, you think. Hope is desperation. Hope is a yearning you can't deny. And hope is just plain old-fashioned insanity.

Not only does God love every person and offer them new life, but everyone needs the life that only God can give. What

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.

Þegar öllu er á botninn hvolft, þá fer allt einhvernveginn, þótt margur efist um það á tímabili.

Presently the small of coffee began to fill the room. This was morning's hallowed moment. In such a fragrance the perversity of the world is forgotten, and the soul is inspired with faith in the future…

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.