Quotes About Hope

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning and that, when my last sun has set and my last moon has risen, when the dawn comes that marks the moment when I am born with the dead, there will be mercy.

Maybe from now on the bittersweet memory of a child lost would be only the sweet memory of a child loved. And maybe, henceforth, it would not be a memory so heavy that it oppressed the heart.

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.

One of the good things about being twelve or younger is that you tend to believe that you'll live forever.

He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold peace of indifference. Now that events forced him to open himself to the world again, he was swamped by emotion as a novice surfer was overwhelmed by each cresting wave.

Desperation is energized despair, and despair is the abandonment of hope.

He actually felt as if God had sent the retriever to intrigue him, to remind him that the world was full of surprises and that despair made no sense when one had no understanding of the purpose—and strange possibilities—of existence.

To have your life blow up four times before you're thirty would take something out of anyone, and I think it drained from my mom just enough hope that she never quite built her confidence back to what it once had been.

Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been through, by now I should have lost one leg, three fingers, one buttock, most of my teeth, an ear, my spleen, and my sense of fun. But here I am.

Don't mourn the death of monsters, dear. Celebrate the saving of the innocents.

Belief and trust, twined together, can meet any danger.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility.… —T. S. Eliot, East Coker

Because utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.

the world's many mysteries fascinate me and inspire in me a hope so profound that I suppose, if I were to express it sincerely and at length in a manuscript more bluntly philosophical than this one, any normal person, those who walk freely in daylight, would find it the work of a Pollyanna and worthy only of ridicule.

He said that the penny would not bring us luck, that even if it had been a million dollars, it would not of itself bring us luck and change our lives, that what happened to us was of our election—and therefore allowed us more hope than luck could ever provide.

Will I see you again?' I asked. 'Of course you will dear, you'll see everyone again;

I have no choice but to believe that all our lives are woven through with grace, because only then could the promise made to me and Stormy come true.

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

Whatever you expect is what will be, so simply change your expectations.

But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.

When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again. That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.