Quotes About Hope

But her eye, that torch or the soul, is untamed, and in the intensity of her reading, we see a soul invincibly young in faith and hope.

We have waited here long in the dust; we are tired and hungry; but the triumphal procession must appear at last.

Some things can be recovered. Some things can be restored. But some lost things, we seek forever.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

A Warrior for the Human Spirit is a decent human being who aspires to be of service in an indecent, inhumane time.

Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

Nothing is ever changed at a single stroke, I know that full well, although a person sometimes wishes it could be otherwise.

Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.

The struggle is not lost. I believe we have to live, as long as we live, in the expectation and hope of changing the world for the better. That may sound naive. It may even sound sentimental. Never mind: I believe it. What are we to live for, except life itself? And, with all our doubts, with all our flaws, with all our problems, I believe that we will carry on, with God's help.

As a devout Baptist, she believed it was a sin to pray for anything for yourself. You ought to pray only for strength to bear whatever the Lord saw fit to send you, she thought. I was never able to follow this advice, for although I would often feel a sense of uneasiness over the tone of my prayers, I was the kind of person who prayed frantically-"Please, God, please, please, PLEASE let Ross MacVey like me better than Mavis.

This very moment is a seed from which tomorrow's flowers grow.

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

My child, I don't know where people go when they die, but I know where they stay.

Privi?i din spate, oamenii duc greutatea destinului lor, ca ?i cum, în partea din ei în?i?i pe care n-o pot vedea, s-ar înghesui toate suferin?ele, necazurile, speran?ele, individuale ?i cele ale tuturor genera?iilor precedente care parc? se înver?uneaz? împotriva ultimului martor, îl împing în fa??, dar între timp par s? râd? de el, de înfrângerea pe care o va suferi.

Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of.

Persone benefiche che incontri per caso e ti viene voglia di abbracciare, perché ti sorridono dal fondo della loro esperienza umana e di colpo ti risarciscono dell'altra metà del mondo, quella accasciante delle persone rinserrate nella loro pozza di buio.

Ne vem, h?erka moja, kam gredo ljudje, ki umrejo, vem le, kje ostanejo.

La vita, credimi, non è un fascio di speranze perdute, un puzzolente ricamo di mimose, la vita raglia e cavalca nel suo incessante splendore.

Margaret Mazzantini

Seems like nothing's getting safer or better," I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse." "Maybe that's what's gotta happen," Willa Mae said. "Maybe everything's gotta break lose and fall apart before we can put it back together again right.

Every now and then you get hit with hard times or good— who's to say? But then there are these tiny times in between when you look up at the tops of trees swaying or you sit don to a fine meal with a new family or you wake up alone and by the end of the day, you got yourself your first friend.

What's to be done with all that you know and see? What do you do with so much meanness in this sorrowful world?