Quotes About Hope

If it is your fault that your mother is miserable, it becomes a potentially fixable affront. Taking blame means that at least the hope of love is still there-all you have to do is deserve it.

One last Rule of Life: When your heart is cracked open with grief and sorrow, look for that soft light somewhere you don't expect to find it. Trust it. Love makes heroes of us all.

So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was dead.

Music and singing keeps us alive, give us hope. If we can feel, we know we can live.

With the exception of those born in refugee camps, every refugee used to have a life. It doesn't matter whether you were a physician in Bosnia or a goat herder in the Congo: what matters is that a thousand little anchors once moored you to the world. Becoming a refugee means watching as those anchors are severed, one by one, until at last you're floating outside of society, an untethered phantom in need of a new life.

Let's just hope history forgets the snafus.

We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.

We were displaced persons, but it was time more than space that defined us. While the distance to return to our lost country was far but finite, the number of years it would take to close that distance was potentially infinite. Thus, for displaced people, the first question was always about time: When can I return?

So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope,

The immigrant is the one who wants to come, unlike the refugee, who is forced to come.

They started this war, and now that they're tired of it, they've sold us out, he said, pouring me another drink. But who is there to blame but ourselves? We were foolish enough to think they would keep their word. Now there's nowhere to go but America.

So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves wit hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was dead.

What am I dying for? [...] I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.

Now there's nowhere to go but America. There are worse places, I said. Perhaps, he said.

What am I dying for? he cried back. I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.

Thousands more must be staring into darkness like us, gripped by scandalous thoughts, extravagant hopes, and forbidden plots. We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.

I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! if something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.

Despair may be thick, but friendship's thicker.

He was a relatively innocent man, which was the best one could hope for in this world.

The New Year is what you make out of it... it does not come with goodies but with Hope to create Opportunities....

The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.

Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bigger the dream, the bigger the disappointment.

The future is simple. The future is simple, I can hold it i the palm of my hand; and the present is just a matter of endurance, detachment, and a sense of humor.

Do not be afraid, there is nothing to fear. Do not grieve, because tragedy is an illusion. We are free, and we are happy, and together we are complete.