Quotes About Hope

It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.

Violence is central in our lives, a constant and unavoidable reality. Experience is not a linear construct moving from one point to another - childhood to maturity, "bad" to "good," beginning to end - but a wheel turning around a point that shifts between hope and despair. "At the still point of the turning world," the job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

One of the characteristics of the mind is that it is always expecting something, chasing after something it wants or retreating from or resisting something is doesn't want.

ce qui convainc de la nécessité de la vie future, ce ne sont pas les raisonnements mais ceci : tu marches dans la vie la main dans la main avec un homme, et tout à coup, cet homme disparaît là-bas dans le néant, et toi tu restes devant cet abîme et tu y plonges ton regard (Guerre et Paix, livre deuxième, 2ième partie, ch. XII)

We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over- but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.

Oh how lovely it is!' she kept saying. Look what a moon! Oh, how lovely!…I feel like squatting down on my heels, putting my arms round my knees like this, tight – as tight as can be – and flying away!" Prince Andrei, a serious man who thought he had given up on the pleasures of life, hears her from below, and "all at once such an unexpected turmoil of youthful thoughts and hopes, contrary to the whole tenor of his life, surged up in his heart.

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, "A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

Being poor is a little like having an earache over a Bank Holiday. All you can think about is the pain and how long it will be before a healing hand can be found to take away the anguish.

Of course, for a lot of people, death was a welcome change. Grinding poverty takes the edge off most things, including life.

It wasn't often that you got to see a man whose dreams were literally about to come true, but then the lights went down, and I couldn't see him anymore.

America is a nation of big shoulders and big dreams.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed, to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace." —From John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech, January 1961 Given

What was that World War I saying, "Trust the Lord and pass the ammo"? For me, trust the doctors and the Lord and pass the Velcade, Revlimid, dexamethasone.

came of age in the Great Depression, when economic despair hovered over

prophetic activities of the Kingdom of God.

Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

Each day the pair would meet at 2pm at the exact halfway point between the villages and stand a hundred yards apart, staring longingly at each other, yearning for the time when the pestilence would pass.

God has given us the tools and the resources to give hope to the hopeless. But unless we take those tools out of the closet, millions of innocent men, women, and children will continue to die without knowing that hope.

There is a strange thing about anticipation," Fionchadd told him. "It is generally both more and less than the actuality that follows. A thing desired is rarely as pleasant to possess as it is to anticipate; a thing dreaded is rarely so foul.

The Ryan Murphy universe is a very strange place to occupy, and I would never tell anyone who loves Chad Radwell to ever give up complete hope.

Miracles occur, or people die the next day.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.

Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.