Quotes About Hope

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it.

What then?" But she put the thought from her mind. When the war was over, everything would be settled, somewhow. If Ashley loved her, he simply couldn't go on living with Melanie.

If only the peace I feel right now could be stored up and released later when cruelty surrounds me in the dark during nightmares.

Joy and truth both have a way of peeking through any dark curtain.

Like King Midas, I am left with nothing but this unreasonable hope that, somehow, my strange life and my lost family will return to normal.

My mind soars and whirls in a dance of wild fear and graceful hope.

When all else fails, trust the library.

I feel like... the boy lost somewhere between the torment of memory and a few fragile shards of hope.

How can people stay sane in a world that makes no sense?

My heart drums with gratitude. My thoughts sing with hope.

Slavery all day, and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!

that proved the

The point of creating futures is to get people to imagine what they want and don't want to happen down the road – and maybe do something about it.

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

No.' He spoke with a tenderness unexpected in him. 'No, lady, no. Put that clean out of your mind. That dear chap and his dog have gone, gone where the dear chaps do go, gone with a few I knew. You've got your own life and you go and live it and make a do of it, as no doubt he'd like you to. Now

Lo real no es algo que te venga dado. Es algo que te pasa. Y ahora mismo, necesitas que te pasen cosas buenas.

Be willing to acknowledge that there is a way out and a better life waiting for you. It will motivate you to action.

And here she was, back where terrors could immobilize her, and wonders too, where life might become gulps of strong ale rather than sips of bloom-tea. She did not know whether she was capable of lifting the cup, let alone drinking the contents.

Always your mind goes to the worst, Mam, and the worst very seldom happens.

It is only, she thought, that I thought you brought my bear, and life lit up for a moment. And now it is returned to its usual dimness, which truly I had thought was bright enough for me.

Grief isn't like a map you can follow. It's not a simple route with a destination. Sometimes you loop back and find yourself in the exact same place you left.

Stories can seem like tragedies, depending where they stopped.

Margot Benary-Isbert

Sometimes I wish the end would come... whatever it is