Quotes About Hope

When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.

I think it's less stressful to just make decisions as you go, because plans never work out, but you never run out of dreams. You have an eternal bucket list where you keep crossing things off, and keep adding things to the bottom.

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

After I had my heart operation I got really into heart stuff. I did think it would be lovely to go on 'Strictly' just so people could see I wasn't finished. But, sadly, now I couldn't because of my joints. I'd be hobbling around.

They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that.

I think that research is incredibly important and hopefully one day there will be a cure for cancer. They are making great strides.

'MMMbop' ultimately is about trying to see the positive in the negative, trying to see the positive relationships you'll have the in the face of challenge and strife.

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

For the longest time, I was auditioning, getting called back, and I had a long string of things not going my way. I thought, 'Maybe this is never going happen. Maybe I'll never book a commercial.'

After a string of miscarriages, I gave birth to my first child. I spent six months of my pregnancy stuck in bed, staring at the ceiling. So my kids mean a lot to me.

You can't strip anyone of their dreams of pursuing a job.

It's all a progression towards hopefully one day making a record that can be the definitive you can offer. Some bands come in with that at first, and the great bands never really stray from that. I want to earn my stripes.

God has a plan for every individual. We must only strive to achieve what we have to. He takes care of the rest.

Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.

My kids are the reason I continue to strive for something better. They know - as kids who are Muslim, Somali, black Americans - that they've always been part of a struggle and that change isn't easy.

I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

Anywhere you go, where people are at the bottom, we've all got the same outlook on life and want to strive for more.

I want people to feel inspired. I want people to feel good. I want people to feel something. I want people to strive for what they want in their life, and I want them to heal from anything that's hurting them.

The world has been broken into millions of pieces, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.