Quotes About Hope

I'm walking walking walking to where the sun is setting. I'm looking at it and wanting to catch it in my hand and to be squeezing until color are dripping out from it forever. That way everywhere it is always dark and nobody is ever having to see any of the terrible thing that is happening in this world.

And now the woman is praying to God............... I am laughing laughing because God is forgetting everybody in this country.

Meredith has held faith for the last five months that Harvard will have faith in her-- even after the initial early deferral. They have to. She is smart and her parents are important.

Hope does not consist of expecting things to turn out well, it consists of hoping that it will make sense

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

NadÄ›je prostÄ› není optimismus. Není to pÃ…â"¢esvÄ›d?ení, že nÄ›co dobÃ…â"¢e dopadne, ale jistota, že má nÄ›co smysl – bez ohledu na to, jak to dopadne.

The real question is whether the brighter future is really always so distant. What if, on the contrary, it has been here for a long time already, and only our own blindness and weakness has prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it?

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

One hope I do retain. That the war will end and I will serve as a stud in a great farmhouse.

It seemed as if at least a moment some spring had burst forth in his barren soul.

Ois tässä ollut päivä aikaa keittää se kypsäksi asti, sanoi Rahikainen pakkiinsa katsellen. Siellähän herne toveria etsii, mutta turha on työnsä.

Sitten hän kysyi Vanhalalta virallisen tärkeällä äänellä: – Korpraali Vanhala. Oletteko te lammas vai suomalainen sotamies? – Minä olen mailman paras metsätaistelija, hihi… – Niinpä niin. Honkajoki huokasi muka surkean alistuvasti. – Yksi toivo minulla vielä on. Kunpa sota loppuisi ja pääsisi isoon taloon sonniksi.

girls their mothers' nature share. So be not thou. For pity's sake Accept the word the monarch spake. Thy husband's will, O Queen, obey, And be the people's hope and stay, O, do not, urged by folly, draw The king to tread on duty's law.

succour me. Too well I see the demon band The slaughter of my love have

Not that they starve; but starve so dreamlessly, Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap, Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve, Not that they die, but that they die like sheep.

There are many earthly languages. There are many heavenly languages. There are many blazing, blinding tomorrows. But they all lead to the same glorious tomorrow at last.

At one time, the state of culture in Czechoslovakia was described, rather poignantly, as a 'Biafra of the spirit'. . . I simply do not believe that we have all lain down and died. I see far more than graves and tombstones around me. I see evidence of this in . . . expensive books on astronomy printed in a hundred thousand copies (they would hardly find that many readers in the USA) . . .

The only thing holier than a crucifixion is a resurrection.

I could always know from this moment on that God is ever present, and the human picture just does not matter. That miracles are normal and to expect them.

Why are you taking away my last hope that I had lived to some purpose?

all revelation which does not give hope is useless and superfluous.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

Christmas isn't just a day. It's a frame of mind.