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Quotes About Hope

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to
~ Unknown
He will show you how, during the springtime of life, illusions, innocent hopes, silver threads of gossamer, descend from heaven and return there without ever touching the earth.
~ Honore de Balzac
I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.
~ Hope Davis
fairy was delusion, so was the law. At any rate, it was a sort of magic, moulding reality into any shape it chose.
~ Unknown
The narrow zone of color created by the firelight was like the planet Earth?a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows.
~ Unknown
With each word her voice rose higher, like a soaring bird. But at the last word it was as if the bird when it had reached the ceiling suddenly fell down dead
~ Unknown
Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.
~ Unknown
It was in the spring of his fiftieth year that Master Nathaniel Chanticleer had his first real anxiety.
~ Unknown
But the other tribe — the passionate, tragic, rootless tree — man? Alas! He is a creature whose highest privileges are a curse. In his mouth is ever the bitter-sweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he can never tell. For every man worthy of the name is an initiate; but each one into different Mysteries.
~ Unknown
Bij de Zon, Maan en Sterren en de Gouden Appels van het Westen!
~ Unknown
And the real anchor is not hope but faith — even if it be only somebody else's faith.
~ Unknown
Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.
~ Unknown
It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.
~ Unknown
We buried the little chipmunk in Greta's backyard and marked the place with a stone. I said a prayer over its grave. I don't know if there is a chipmunk heaven, or for that matter, even an animal heaven, but I sure hope there is. Better still, I'd like all animals to go to our heaven. It would make the place a lot more interesting than I usually picture it.
~ Unknown
Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that Fate allows you.
~ Horace
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
~ Horace
Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal.
~ Horace
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
~ Horace
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
~ Horace
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
~ Horace
Never despair.
~ Horace
Life's brief span forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.
~ Horace
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
~ Horace
Pero al verla otra vez, a veinte metros de mí, mirándome, sentí que en mi alma, dormida en paz, surgía sangrando la desolación de haberla perdido, como si no hubiera pasado un solo día de esos diez años.
~ Horacio Quiroga