Quotes About Hope

I realised I had a stream of thoughts about him which ran for the most part below conscious level. I noticed jets spurting up from this stream: comparisons with other relationships I knew of which had weathered massive changes and shifts of balance; small crumbs of hope he would find he missed the familiarity of my company, or that his gestures of comfort meant more than a gentle goodbye. I grieved for these hopes, and their hopelessness.

I wished to trust, and so I trusted. When events did not please me, my dreams reworked them.

Perhaps effort doesn't matter, it isn't what ensures survival.

The thing about longing is this: It is easy to feel equal to wanting. It is rare to feel equal to having.

The thing about gardens is that everyone thinks they go on growing, that in winter they sleep and in spring they rise.

I just stuffed it into the container of my dream.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.

We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Literature is my Utopia

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

He will be sure to give us rest soon.

The tears came into Christiana's eyes,