Quotes About Hope

Cuando amas, imaginas el futuro de acuerdo con tus sueños.

As I think of it, there's an ache in my chest. I cannot control these dreams in which she seems to lie in my future like a whole season of extravagant meals if only I knew how to arrange it.

Gevoel van moed. Groot verlangen verder te leven.

There is one story question per novella, usually in the form: Will X get Y?

He was preaching about expectations, that new Christians sometimes had the expectation that life with Christ was going to be smooth and happy and without obstacle from now on. That there would be no major problems, no confrontation with evil, no valley of the shadow ever again. Not so, he said, not so. There would be tribulation in the world. That was certain. But the other certainty was that Jesus has overcome the world.

My working definition of a successful novel is this: the emotionally satisfying account of how a character deals with imminent death. Once

could possibly be.

Could be worse!

The world is a good place, and so are most of the people who live in it. Evil people are a minority, and they're not supposed to win. When they go down, we have every right to pop a bottle of champagne and cheer.

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good, the Golux said, by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life. The firefly's ? said the minstrel. The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.

Books can be burned," croaked Black. "They have a way of rising from the ashes," said Andreus.

Después de todo ¿dónde no hay infierno?

Ne regardez pas en arrière avec colère, ni devant avec crainte, mais autour de vous avec conscience.

the Princess Saralinda thought she saw, as people often think they see, on clear and windless days, the distant shining shores of Ever After. Your guess is quite as good as mine (there are a lot of things that shine) but I have always thought she did, and I will always think so.

Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.

The remedy for evil is Jesus.  The remedy for death is Jesus.  The remedy for sin is Jesus.  When in doubt, Jesus. 

However long or dark the night is, the dawn will always break. ~ African Proverb

He Is Not Dead I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you—oh you, who the wildest yearn For an old-time step, and the glad return, Think of him faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here. Think of him still as the same. I say, He is not dead—he is just away.

I have torn myself out of many bitter places In America, that seemed Tall and green-rooted in mid-noon.

It is hard for one man to beat an army," Danil said. "But not impossible," Baradar answered.

He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.

So ardent did he sing, each note might carry a breath of his life. People passing stopped to hear. And seeing them gathered, he stumbled among them with his hat held out. It was easy to credit the truth of his song, that his dim old eyes, they once had shone, that his heart, once cheerful, had been bro-o-ken. Two coins chinkled in his hat. And so it was when nights were still and sleep had yet to bind him, round him shone that other light, fondly to remind him.

Today was going to get a whole lot worse before it got better.