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Quotes About Hope

What's to become of us? We can't go on like this." "Yes, we can go on like this," said Cesare. "We can go on exactly like this for the rest of our lives.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Sink, he told his hopes, with a kind of satisfaction, sink like a corpse dropped into the river. I am rejected, not for being unwelcome, not even for being ridiculous, but for being nothing.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
At that precise moment, while the juniors were eating their dessert at Prunier's, Annie fell in love with RPD absolutely, and hers must have been the last generation to fall in love without hope in such an unproductive way. After the war the species no longer found it biologically useful, and indeed it was not useful to Annie. Love without hope grows in its own atmosphere, and should encourage the imagination, but Annie's grew narrower.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Mama always used to say that love is never lost, even if it's not returned in the way you hope or expect. "Put it on out there," she said. "Lay your heart on the line, and don't be afraid of getting it broken. Broken hearts heal. Guarded hearts just turn to stone.
~ Unknown
Everyone has known what it's like to see their dreams crumble. But these women...have found something more stable to hang onto. They're not content and fulfilled because circumstances turned out the way they hoped, but because of their faith in a God who is above circumstance.
~ Unknown
It's the dreams we're unaware of that are the most important ones. God sees into our hearts and knows our souls inside out. Our conscious dreams may go unfulfilled, hut the Lord's dreams—those deeper ones—are always realized. We just have to keep our eyes open to see the miracle when it happens.
~ Unknown
Thinks that it is a poor sort of life that has not known expectation, the pleasure of savoring ahead. So enjoy it while you have it, he tells himself.
~ Penelope Lively
Life must go on, no matter how large your problems may be.
~ Penelope Lively
Leave it till the morning. We'll all feel stronger then.
~ Penelope Lively
Down the avenue of trees I can see a spot of sunlight. I'm trying so hard to get there.
~ Unknown
There is no healing without hope. Despair is life's direst enemy. Despair is living death.
~ Unknown
She had never really believed in God. There didn't seem any point in it, and he just seemed so, well, unlikely. But now, a world that definitely had no God at all felt kind of... empty. It wasn't really God she wanted; it was the possibility of God.
~ Unknown
a minha vida é o esforço de mostrar a uns e a outros que há sempre lugar para o talvez.
~ Unknown
João Evangelista estava farto de subdesenvolvimento.
~ Unknown
Nem tudo na vida é doloroso ou inviável.
~ Unknown
No novo ano, o futuro continuava tão longe como no ano velho.
~ Unknown
Todos os seres vivos merecem o aceno de uma esperança, mesmo se estão inevitavelmente condenados à morte.
~ Unknown
Sometimes the wrong fairytale turns out to be just right!
~ Unknown
Job was still in God's will even when he lost his children, wealth, and health.
~ Unknown
At times you may believe that you are at wits' end and feel that God has bypassed you for a more urgent petition or a needier person. Perhaps He has "too many children" to take care of and is "too busy for you." However, just as the examples above indicate, God prepares a good outcome before the situation arises; He is not surprised at the trouble and at your reaction to it, and He can and is planning a way of escape before you ever get into the crisis.
~ Unknown
There is always a Ziklag battle before a Zion victory.
~ Unknown
Everyone who runs the race can have a special level of grace.
~ Unknown
What you lost weakened you, could kill you. What you wanted kept you going. What you wanted gave you strength.
~ Peter Behrens
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. It's depressing if you spend too much time reliving old joys. You think you'll never have anything as good again.
~ Peter Benchley