Quotes About Hope

The children are waiting for us," she said. Those were her words, but what she really said was that I must live and begin now to live. Death must not interrupt life. There were others waiting for us.

The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.

We were a proud people. We lost our country. Our only hope for return was to keep ourselves a people. The only hope to keep ourselves a people was to keep our common faith in one God, a God of our own. That God has been our country and our nation. In sorrow and wailing and woe for all that we have lost has been our union. And our rabbis have so taught us, generation after generation.

One faces the future with one's past

And what was worship except trust and hope that life and death had meaning because they were created and planned by Heaven?

In these days it never came to Wang the Tiger's mind that his son's dreams might not be his own and he lived for the spring.

I have come to believe that the natural human heart is good, and I have observed that this goodness is found in all varieties of people, and that it can and does prevail in spite of other corruptions. This human goodness alone provides hope enough for the world.

I do not say this is a decree," she wrote, her beautiful writing brushing the page with firm yet delicate strokes. "Let it be greeting and invitation, a hope that we may meet again with quiet hearts and wise minds. Come, then, before the ceremonies for my sixtieth birthday. Let us spend an hour together before we mingle with the Court.

Mi señor, ¿has visto el amanecer esta mañana? Se hubiera dicho que la tierra saltaba al encuentro del sol. Al principio, todo era oscuridad; luego surgió la luz como una nota musical. Mi señor, yo soy tu pobre tierra, que espera.

The fruit of her life is her grandson who is not yet born.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Hay tantos niños que van a nacer con una alita rota Y yo quiero que vuelen compañero Que su revolución les dé un pedazo de cielo rojo Para que puedan volar

Siempre fue así, suspiró rendida, pan para hoy y hambre para mañana, tan pronto creía tener algo y la vida se lo quitaba de un arañazo.

The idea that there could be one solution to breast cancer- screening, early detection, some universal cure- is certainly appealing. All of us, those who fear the disease, those who live with it, our friends and families, the corporations who swath themselves in pink, wish it were true. Wearing a bracelet, sporting a ribbon, running a race, or buying a pink blender expresses our hopes and that feels good - even virtuous. But making a difference is more complicated than that.

Infertility had rocked me to my core.

It is one thing, I was discovering, to think, Maybe I won't have kids, and quite another to be told, Maybe you can't. This is how impatience turns to desperation.

Some chains are the result of things done to us. Some chains are the result of what we needed that we did not have. Although many are due to our own choices, there is hope. - Peggy Park

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what's going on, but that there's something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.

Without giving up hope—that there's somewhere better to be, that there's someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.

Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time—that is the basic message.

When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure.

With the global economy in chaos and the environment of the planet at risk, with war raging and suffering escalating, it is time for each of us in our own lives to take the leap and do whatever we can to help turn things around.

We're all addicted to hope—hope that the doubt and mystery will go away. This addiction has a painful effect on society: a society based on lots of people addicted to getting ground under their feet is not a very compassionate place.