Quotes About Hope

Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun (2004). "Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence," Psychological Inquiry 15: 1–18. The researchers have a test of post-traumatic growth, called the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), that you can find online. We also recommend the excellent Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg. Also see:

Can I ask you a sort of strange question? Suppose that you go to bed tonight and sleep well. Sometime, in the middle of the night, while you are sleeping, a miracle happens and all the troubles that brought you here are resolved. When you wake up in the morning, what's the first small sign you'd see that would make you think, 'Well, something must have happened—the problem is gone!'?

One of IDEO's designers even sketched out a "project mood chart" that predicts how people will feel at different phases of a project. It's a U-shaped curve with a peak of positive emotion, labeled "hope," at the beginning, and a second peak of positive emotion, labeled "confidence," at the end. In between the two peaks is a negative emotional valley labeled "insight.

Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.

My longing for someone to talk to made Himillsy the lightning bug in my honey jar. I punched holes in the lid so she could breathe.

Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.

I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life?

The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.

Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali

Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable?

How innocent we'd been, thinking that if only we willed something hard enough, it would come true.

Hope not built on reason brings disappointment only.

the bird began to carry them to a new life in a new land. We'll be happy ever after, the queen wanted to whisper to her daughter as they flew, but she knew that was not true. Life never is that way. And so instead she held her daughter in silence, heart to heart, and as they traveled each heart drew on the other's strength, so that when they reached their destination they would be ready.

I may be injured; I may even be wounded to the heart; but I'm not defeated yet.

But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.

All through the history of the world, the virtuous have suffered for causes unseen. Learn from Nal and Damayanti to bear your misfortunes bravely. Like theirs, your evil times, too, will come to an end.

But sometimes the only way to healing is through the corridor of pain.

The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.

Don't fret,' the bow said. 'You have many journeys in your future, some of which you'll wish you didn't have to undertake. And as for coming from somewhere far away, you, too, have done that.

O the irony of desire, always hearkening after the liquid glimmer beyond the distant-most dune. Sometimes only to find that it is no different from the parched sand on which we stood days, months, years ago, in yearning.

Once I said to my mother, As long as there's fresh bread in this world, things can't be beyond repair.

The grandfather dropped his weapons and knelt before him. On his face was a look I could only interpret as hope. "And have you come to set me free finally, Govinda?" he asked.

til which fried in its own oil restores lustre when one has lost interest in life. I will be Tilottama, the essence of til, life-giver, restorer of health and hope.

Sometimes—she knows this from her own life—to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.