Quotes About Hope

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I wouldn't say that to a dying man.

America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.

And what do you remember, finally, when everyone has gone home and the streets are empty of devotion and hope, swept by river wind? Is the memory thin and bitter and does it shame you with its fundamental untruth--all nuance and wishful silhouette? Or does the power of transcendence linger, the sense of an event that violates natural forces, something holy that throbs on the hot horizon, the vision you crave because you need a sign to stand against your doubt?

But idealists of course are unpredictable. They tend to be the ones who turn bitter overnight, deceived by lies they've told themselves.

Miracles share the landscape with death.

The nice thing about life is that it's filled with second chances. Quoting Bill.

We're not gonna die We're not gonna die We're not gonna die, leading them in a chant, a mantra that was joyful and mock joyful at the same time because this is New York, New York and we want it both ways.

There is another kind of belief, a second force, insecure, untrusting, a faith that is spring-fed by the things we fear in the night.

bright. This was the key, it seemed to us. Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.

But it will definitely come. Maybe now, maybe never.

Most of our longings go unfulfilled.

At what point is it acceptable to give up?

Youth is about promise.

every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint' -archy the cockroach

every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint

PRELUDE TO A NEW DREAM

If you tell someone you love him, and that person says 'Well, I don't love you, is that a reason for you to suffer? Just because someone rejects you doesn't mean you have to reject yourself. If one person doesn't love you, someone else will love you. There is always someone else. And it's better to be with someone who wants to be with you than to be with someone who has to be with you.

As my friend and coach, Nelson Searcy, says, "Hope is not a church strategy.

People ought never be defined by their worst day.

We don't pray for rain. We wait for rain, and when it comes, we thank God for it.

And eloquence, Henry Mackie says, is really all any of us can hope for.

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

Anyone ambitious, who lives to be old or even old , endures the inevitable loss of ambition's fulfillment.

Life is hell but death is worse. - from No Deposit