Quotes About Hope

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

We know that some of you are still scared. We know that some of you are still silent. Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good.

All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

We love and we feel and we try and we hope.

I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing...On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.

seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

All I get is tomorrow.

jaded , adj . In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything.

Someday your prince will come, I assure him. And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?

traverse , v. You started to cry, and I quickly said, No -- I mean this part is over. We have to get to the next part. And you said, I'm not sure we can. Without even having to think about it, I replied, Of course we can. How can you be so sure? you asked. And I said, I'm sure. Isn't that enough?

If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it's a game, I know I'm going to lose.

And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God...

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope.

I'm glad you're not mad at me, she says. I just want everything to be okay. I nod. If there's one thing I've learned it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

The thing about possibilities: there are some you want much more than others. Or only one you want much more than everything else.

Tell me a way you think this can work. We'll find a way, I tell her. That's not an answer. It's a hope. Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.

Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day