Quotes About Hope

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life

she told me she'd be a phoenix. The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. They don't really exist. She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

You know how I see it? There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing--light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light...I guess from my point of view, we can choose to be in the dark, or we can light a candle. And for me, Christ is that candle.

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after. If anyone ever did, it's us.

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

Sara: You are so brave, I tell her, and then I smile. When I grow up, I want to be just like you. To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. No Mommy, she says. You'd be sick.

I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.

Yes, she is. He looks at me, his face carved in pain. She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming. My eyes fill up with tears. But I love her, I say, because that is reason enough.

You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.