Quotes About Hope

Because I don't think I have a handle on how to write for grown-ups. The grown-up publishing world is so fraught with one-upsmanship, scorn and snobbery. I did write an adult novel. Thank goodness it went out of print. I think we kids' authors still start out with hope every morning. We honor our audience.

You know how you want something so much and you're afraid of it too?

And so I came on the discovery with no warning. Religion must be for trusting. And trusting, what is that for? I figured it out: It helps you go on when you can't go on.

When you can find no reason to celebrate, you find one anyway. Every soul needs laughter and fun, no matter how awful the reality of the present.

We knew this wasn't going to be easy, but people before us have done it, and so can we. Nothing in this life is guaranteed. You make the best choices you can and try your hardest." He paused. "I reckon we can trust God to take care of the rest.

We only truly fight to make changes when we believe in those changes with all our heart. You have to want your dream badly enough to hold on through the rough times.

It is impossible to go backward and undo the past. All you can do is live with the present and try to make the best of the future.

Trustin' done take a lifetime, Rose girl. Every time, it seems like you got to learn it again. But it gets to be some easier. You finally figure out that God does really love you. Then the trustin' get easier. God done already know how you feel. Let him take you through the hard times. He'll teach you to trust...

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you." Sarah moved back to her chair and sank down. "I had a dream a few nights ago. In that dream, I was free. Free! Walking the streets of heaven hand in hand with my Jesus. There weren't no slave or free there. Everyone be equal." She paused. "Jesus told

There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.

There is love and there is sorrow, but the gain outweighs the loss, if you will make it so.

Love- the only human attribute that is indestructible by time, that is certain to survive time, if humanity itself survives.

L'important, c'est de ne jamais désespérer.

a marginal man condemned to death on the cross is Lord ...

The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.

Collectively speaking, if we chart the internal mood of every successful movement for social integration we find that, ironically, with each advance made it is anger—not hope, much less elation—that deepens in the petitioners at the gate. Ironic but not surprising: to petition repeatedly is to be reminded repeatedly that one is not wanted, never had been, never will be.

Durante años me dije: "Por la mañana". Lo que, claro está, nunca ocurrió.

Once upon a time, in the days before Social Security or insurance companies, there lived a miller and his daughter, Della, who were fairly well-off and reasonably happy until the day their mill burned down.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

There is no happiness in life, there is only a mirage on the horizon, so cherish that.

We didn't believe in tomorrow. We we couldn't forget what had happened yesterday.

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.