Quotes About Hope

Thou dost not understand the foolish things that creep into the hearts of us white men when we love a woman, not for her beauty alone, but for something that wise men say lies beyond the black gates of death, and the woman who loves and the man who loves shall yet meet again.

Het mooie van onze verbeelding is voor ons, die geen menschen van doen zijn, de troost van ons leven.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Love builds highways out of dead ends.

Nada es mentira. Basta con un poco de fe y todo es real.

I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

I am not yet born O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears

I cannot drug my life with the present moment; The present moment may rape--but all in vain-- The future, for the future remains a virgin Who must be tried again.

When my death us do part Then shall forgiven and forgiving meet again, Or will it be, as always was, too late?

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only

When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up. (Zero/Hector Zeroni)

Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.

But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

People tell me, "You're such an optimist." Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass. —LOUIS SILVIE ZAMPERINI