Quotes About Hope

as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues....

Dal raccontare al passato, e dal presente che m prendeva la mono nei tratti concitati, ecco, o futuro, sono salita in sella al tuo cavallo. Quali nuovi stendardi mi levi incontro dai pennoni delle torri di città non ancora fondate? quali fumi di devastazioni dai castelli e dai giardini che amavo? quali impreviste età dell'oro prepari, tu malpadroneggiato, tu foriero di tesori pagati a caro prezzo, tu mio regno da conquistare, futuro...

Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

È dell'uomo attendere. Dell'uomo giusto, attendere con fiducia; dell'ingiusto, con paura.

His trouble was not madness, perhaps only desperation…

I sogni dei partigiani sono rari e corti, sogni nati dalle notti di fame, legati alla storia del cibo sempre poco e da dividere in tanti: sogni di pezzi di pane morsicati e poi chiusi in un cassetto

For awhile now, everything has been going wrong for me; it seems to me that in the world there now exists only stories that remain suspended or get lost along the way.

Incominciava a formarsi il vortice che per un istante avrebbe sottratto l'operaio, la sartina, il povero borghese alla noia della vita volgare per condurli poi al dolore. Ammaccati, sperduti, alcuni sarebbero ritornati all'antica vita divenuta però più greve; gli altri non avrebbero trovato mai più la quaresima.

Some of us have hard roads, but the Lord never gives anyone a burden without also giving them a gift. Your job is to find out what that gift is and use it, y'hear me? God doesn't make mistakes. Never forget that. You are exactly who God meant you to be.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Arnold Toynbee has pointed out that the decadence of a great culture is usually accompanied by the rise of a new World Church which extends hope to the domestic proletariat while serving the needs of a new warrior class. School seems eminently suited to be the World Church of our decaying culture.

The hope has vanished that the problem of justly distributing goods can be sidetracked by creating an abundance of them. The cost of the minimum packages capable of satisfying modern tastes has skyrocketed, and what makes tastes modern is their obsolescense prior even to satisfaction.

Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.

In days of doubt, in days of sad brooding on my country's fate, thou alone art my rod and my staff—mighty, true, free Russian speech! But for thee, how not to fall into despair, seeing all that happens at home? Yet who can think that such a tongue is not given to a great people?

Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four."

You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.

Tako obi?no biva. Oni koje želimo da vidimo ne dolaze u ?asovima kad na njih mislimo i kad ih najviše o?ekujemo, a pojavljuju se u nekom trenutku kad smo mislima najdalje od njih. I našoj radosti zbog ponovnog vi?enja tada treba malo vremena da se digne s dna, gde je potisnuta, i pojavi na površini.

Jer, i najve?e pustinje imaju svoje prole?e, pa ma kako kratko i neprimetno bilo.

Prevariti se u jednoj velikoj nadi nije sramota. Sama cinjenica da je takva nada mogla da postoji vredi toliko da nije suvise skupo placena jednim razocarenjem, ma kako tesko ono bilo.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It's awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.