Quotes About Hope

She could remain an optimist because she understood that the world was made exclusively for the innocent. Rooms to house the wicked weren't included in the original architecture. Eventually, the world would be remodeled to restore it to its original purpose.

Failure to be prepared is a failure to hope.

did not fear either the darkness of the night or the darkness under the sun that can sometimes crowd in upon us when we least expect it.

Grief becomes sorrow, and sorrow becomes—" "Enduring

THE WORLD IS FULL of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

from an age of hope, when honor and a sense that right would always win suffused the land.

actually Dorian Purcell.

Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of a deep hole. The second hand was faith—the faith that her hope would be borne out;

As long as we're not soaked in blood and trying to stuff our intestines back into our bodies through a gut wound, we'll be okay.

I didn't mind dying—and being reunited with Stormy, whether in Heaven or in the unknown great adventure she calls "service"—but not until the threat to the children had been identified and met.

I wish I could believe in reincarnation," I said. "Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again.

We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn. My

Ms. Kate DiCamillo

heads east, from which every tomorrow always comes.

Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph.

There is something sacred about great suffering, and it is the sacredness that makes the pain endurable.

Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph. That first blush in the sky is all the hope of the world distilled into light.

We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

In this crazy future tumbling like an avalanche straight at us, the ambitions of two people didn't amount to a hill of beans.

Life can sometimes seem hopelessly complex, unpredictable, chaotic. Then a strange order makes itself known.

Prayer never works. Expect no miracles, Father. The dead stay dead, and the living only wait

Earth's creatures other than humankind. Their lives are short and hard and ever shadowed by threat, and they endure periods of hunger when in their foraging they find nothing, and they persevere through sickness without understanding what it is they suffer, and they have seen others devoured by something bigger with sharper teeth. Yet in spite of all they have to fear, they sleep as if they are safe when unconscious, and they wake to each new day with enthusiasm.

Megan Bookman's

His heart knocked as if on Heaven's door.