Quotes About Hope

And I waited, as a blasphemer waits for lightning. I looked away.

I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had.

A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, Get a boat!

I think what you're groping for is that people need more than to feel scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them.

With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?

A battered wife will invest all her feelings of self-worth in her battering husband. She has totally accepted her husband's valuation of her, and this is why she stays: She hopes to redeem herself in her husband's eyes—and therefore in her own.

I think what you're groping for is that people need more than to be scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them.

I think what you're groping for is that people need more than to be scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them.

He had become simply Edward Bloom: Man. I'd caught him at a bad time in his life. And this was no fault of his own. It was simply that the world no longer held the magic that allowed him to live grandly within it.

I'd caught him at a bad time in his life. And this was no fault of his own. It was simply that the world no longer held the magic that allowed him to live grandly within it.

This wasn't life, of course. This was life support. This was what the medical world had fashioned to take the place of Purgatory.

Dreams are what keep a man going, William, and already your father was dreaming empire. But looking at him on the day he left that town he was born in, you would have seen little more than a young, handsome boy with nothing but the clothes on his back and the holes in his shoes. You might not have actually seen the holes in his shoes, but they were there, William; the holes were there. "That

What good is always being happy? Sadness hints at the possibility of a future reward.

Sometimes the butterflies were there just to make you queasy; sometimes the butterflies were there to let you know that something good was on its way

I don't want to die, I thought. Not again.

The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

This new spot for life might be but a short journey as a winged creature covers it, that is often said, but, oh, Lord, as you know, I had not the wings, and it is a hot, hard ride by road.

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

As Americans, there are very few things we have confidence in.

Life isn't always candy, cowboy boots and horses but it should be.

I know the rain is cold my dear, but dance in it a little while you wait for the sun.

There comes a time when we all must decide if we want to wait for the storms of life to pass or if we want to simply dance in the rain.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.