Quotes About Hope

Like a tide-race, the waves of human mediocrity are rising to the heavens and will engulf this refuge, for I am opening the flood-gates myself, against my will. Ah! but my courage fails me and my heart is sick within me! -- Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the unbeliever who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts out to sea alone, in the night, beneath a firmament no longer lit by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope!" (A Rebours, final words)

If I'd stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades. It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.

I'm an apple expert. Apples are the only exam I could ever hope to pass.

By nature we are creatures of hope, always ready to be deceived again, caught by the marvel that might be wrapped in the grubbiest brown paper parcel.

Well, we live by hope.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Do you believe in fairies? If you believe clap your hands. Don't let Tinker die.

Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.

Pervenche glissait dans un trou profond et sombre. Ou plutôt, c'était son vieux rêve d'un boyau perforant la terre dans lequel elle rampait, les coudes serrées contre ses flacs, les genoux écorchés, avec juste assez de place pour pouvoir avancer d'une ondulation douloureuse qu'elle ne savait plus si elle avançait ou si elle reculait. Elle savait plus depuis combien de temps elle était enfermée dans cette chambre.»

There was a man Who made a boat To sail away And it sank.

We need not get distracted by the seeming defeat or troubles of our daily lives ("what is seen"), because this affliction is actually being used by God to transform our character (2 Corinthians 3:18) so we can become the kind of citizens who will flourish in his future kingdom ("what is not seen").

Finally, don't waste your suffering. Anxiety or depression can be occasions for formation or deformation, for becoming stronger in the long run or weaker. So do what you can—even if it's a baby step—to resolve to let all of this work together for your good.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world.

Entendí que debemos mentirnos a nosotros mismos de vez en cuando, decirnos a nosotros mismos que somos capaces y fuertes, que la vida es buena y que el trabajo trae recompensas, y que después debemos intentar que nuestras mentiras se hagan realidad. Ésa es nuestra misión, nuestra salvación.

If things got really bad at Grandpa's, I figured, my mother and I could live alongside Shelter Rock. We could sleep under the canopy and cook our meals over an open fire, and though it would be rough, how much rougher could it be?

A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

Of God bestaat en of Hij hoort Het smeken van mijn machteloos woord, Of Hij siddert bij mijn geween Weet God alleen.

In dreams, as in love, all is possible.

I did infer, however, that submitting to melancholy would undo the labors of those who had come before me, that I had an obligation to resist instead of giving in. I rose unsteadily to my feet, aware of my shackles, but determined to somehow overcome them.

There are always possibilities.

Rom. 8.28 We know that God is able to bring something good out of every circumstance, as long as we trust Him and remain true to the purpose for which He called us.

I can do anything through Christ who gives me strength.

hungry for breath like a kite falling stray, the wire grows slack the child within pulls at the empty air.

May the living stars preserve us from those so certain of their own virtue.