Quotes About Hope

At this point there were good days, good weeks, when we pretended that it was acceptable that Jack had lived at all, that his life had been, in its truncated way, complete. This wasn't one of those days.

Now create in your mind the best of days, and memorize these details, place this day center in your mind, and when you are the most frightened, bring forth this day and place yourself within it.

No vision has ever come true, no promise has ever been kept. But then there was you, and you were the promise that would obliterate all of the disappointments of the past. Everything about you insisted on it. Your color, your hair, the way light projects from every part of you. You were the sun that would burn away sponge putrid broken promises of the world.

The sun was still low, and everything was golden, and I thought I was seeing my destiny.

It is very much, she thinks, like looking at the moon and knowing one could make it there, too. It is only time and breath that stand between her and the top. She is young. She'll do it and have done it.

but her style of parenting was predicated on hoping for things over which she had little or no control.

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

The author would also like to acknowledge the makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the notion of the normal, mild-mannered person transformed into mutant by freak accident, with the mutant thereafter driven by a strange hybrid of the most rancid bitterness and the most outrageous hope to do very, very odd and silly things, many times in the name of Good. The makers of comic books seemed to be onto something there.

I just said, 'I hope she can get by with a salary of sixty thousand dollars.' 

And I'll be safe? -To what end? -To keep living. -That's my point. That's not enough.

This book is a form of struggle, and it keeps my spirit alive to struggle. To struggle is to strengthen my faith, my hope and my belief in humanity.

Any Tenderloin kid was always prepared.

aside emotionally, that is . . . which was where trusting God came in, she supposed.

Friday, when everything looks dark—like Jesus hanging on the cross—but Sunday's coming. Sunday's a-comin', chil'. Sunday's always coming for them that love God. Know what I'm saying?

I believed that I was alone in my struggle and that my battle was one of survival. By

If it all ends now, I have lived, I have learned, and I have been loved. The greatest lesson is the gift of life, and no matter what, tomorrow is always another day.

That day I wished Mother would have mercy and kill me quickly. As

The only way to keep your head above water is to convince yourself you are going to make it.

I was on my own, and every night I prayed to God that I could be strong both in body and soul.

I made a promise to myself that if I came out of my situation alive, I had to make something of myself.

no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.

Whatever you do, do something positive.

David Adams Richards

The question, however, remains: is there a point at which social and political polarizing national tensions could lead to bloodshed at a national level in America? I devoutly hope not.