Quotes About Hope

You've got to remember whatever happens-it's only life, we all get through it

The dead are sensitive to the living. They have walked this path ahead of us and know our fears, our failings, our desperate hopes, and how much we cherish what cannot last. They pity us, I think, and no doubt they should.

Faith is a kind of love, you know. Love of what is unseen but certain. Love makes us strong and brave.

when one day ends, the next begins, for in this infinite universe there is no final conclusion to anything, definitely not to hope.

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.

rational optimism is required of anyone who hopes to be a survivor

And one thing experience has taught me is that life can hammer you hard just when everything seems to be so fine, but life can also drop the most amazing moments of grace on you just when you thought nothing good would ever happen again.

Quick now, here, now, always, if we are in a condition of complete simplicity (as the poet said), hope and trust will more reliably keep a man afloat, while fear is more likely to sink him.

I'd guess that what's behind you is much more than what lies ahead, though you have a way to go yet.

Annamaria had me verzekerd dat ik in werkelijkheid maar één keer zou sterven, en dat die dood er op geen enkele manier toe zou doen. Iedereen kent echter dagen waarin we een beetje doodgaan, wanneer we verdriet of een nederlaag te verwerken hebben, of bang zijn, of anderen zien lijden die we enkel medelijden kunnen bieden, geen hulp, mensen die buiten de grenzen van onze genade vallen.

We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried. If we are good at waiting, we discover that what we wanted of the future, in our impatience, is no longer what we want, that waiting has brought wisdom.

No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.

The best weapons against evil were hope, optimism, determination, and faith.

hope and trust will more reliably keep a man afloat, while fear is more like to sink him.

Hope lies in action

Trouble was coming, sure, but it's always coming, and meanwhile it's best to live with a smile.

There is hope for you yet. -Einstein the Labrador Retriever via scrabble tiles

I'd settle for just getting my head above the shit line before I drown.

Life has taught her that it's mentally exhausting and spiritually depressing to waste energy and time fanning the flames of anger when the reason for her outrage is someone who can't be affected by anything she does or some malignant force in society that, when challenged, will engulf her and dissolve her in a metastatic frenzy. Patience, steadiness, and hope are healthier than anger;

He supposed he had gone somewhat mad, but a little madness was preferable to unending despair.

This is his life: confrontation with the darkness that has nothing to do with an absence of light.

Everyone is damaged, but the heart can be repaired.

Patience, steadiness, and hope are healthier than anger;

We sometimes take refuge in misery, a strange kind of comfort... But no matter what happens in life, happiness is there for us, waiting to be embraced.