Quotes About Hope

My mind shine even when my thoughts seem dark.

Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.

Dreams can come true.

Today we grieve, tomorrow we fight.

YOU are the one thing in this world, above all other things, that you must never give up on. … You are more precious to this world than you'll ever know.

Writers help summon people to a vision of human betterment...They create an awareness not just to things as they are, but as they ought to be." ~ Norman Cousins

And now from yonder hill the sun's bright beams Shine through the mist, and flood the world with light; The path winds on, leaving our broken dreams Of tangled briar and brake far out of sight. The dawn of hope has come our heart to cheer; The path before us shines in the sun's ray. We follow on, into the coming year, And in hope's sunshine greet each op'ning day.

Jesus, you've got a death wish." "Right now I have a bathroom-and-sleep-somewhere safe wish, kid.

But when a girl's motivated, miracles are possible.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Grief, I began to see, is gratitude turned inside out.

things will be all right again, that I will pass through this time as I have passed through other times, that the vast and threatening blank ahead of me is a mere specter, that life is lighter and more playful than I'm giving it credit for.

Tears are not endless.

Despite everything, I believed somehow there was time. Love's first mistake. Perhaps love's only mistake.

Always in her mind there had been the belief that somewhere on earth there was a better way to live, and that she would find it.

I love these geese. They make my chest feel tight and full and help me believe that things will be alright again, that I will pass through this time as I have passed through other times, that the vast and threatening blank ahead of me is a mere specter, that life is lighter and more playful than I'm giving it credit for. (5)

Looking at our faces you might have said we were all feverish and half mad, and perhaps you would have been right, but Helen's book made us feel we could rip the stars from the sky and write the world anew.

nothing. Some of the women are still wading

What I have had for the past six years, what has been constant and steady in my life is the novel I've been writing. This has been my home, the place I could always retreat to. The place I could sometimes even feel powerful, I tell them. The place where I am most myself. Maybe some of you, I tell them, have found this place already. Maybe some of you will find it years from now. My hope is that some of you will find it for the first time today by writing.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

We have lost the courage to hope.