Quotes About Hope

Dear Hope, I NEVER thought Id see the day when two of your daily e-mails sandwiched a message from none other than PAUL PARLIPIANO. My crush to end all crushes! Gay man of my dreams! OOOH!

Actually, how I am a defensive pessimist. I always assume the worst, so if the reality is even a wee bit better than my disaster scenario, it's a cause for celebration.

I pray that it will be different when they're our age. I pray for a cure to the Virus so they can choose not to share their bodies before they're ready. I pray that they will have the power to choose when and how they will marry, make love, make babies. And I pray that they will not be judged if they choose not to do those things in the "right" order.... My sister and I close our eyes. We dream of a better world. We imagine what we can - and will - do to make it possible.

Please, please, please, I silently ask a God who should have stopped listening to me long ago.

In six weeks, I'd be packing up all my stuff and getting the hell out of Pineville. But until then, my life at The Mall would really, really suck.

he brought back to life and warns her of the beginning of a famine that

There will be glimpses of hope, shards of refracted light at the Cross when Jesus is crucified, but on the way there is very little. Sobering, yet truthful. We are reminded that others who have sought hope and freedom have had to endure without much to go on, too.

We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.

The more you can let go of the sadness, the more room there will be for light.

I look up at his eyes brightening through the tears. I haven't seen them shine like that in over a year.

One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

It's amazing what the living expect of the dying.

I believe your dream tells you to trust in your journey, even though you cannot see the destination.

When I got acutely sick, I could only dream of such a scenario! Instead, I laboriously made my many appointments, trundling from doctor to doctor, trying to get them to share information and offer treatments.

don't believe I will get better," Daudet wrote, ". . . yet I always behave as if my damned pains were going to disappear by tomorrow morning.")

Tolstoy said about Ivan Ilyich: "What he longed for was impossible, but still he longed for it.

A doctor's job, like a gambler's, is intimately tied up with failure; the house always wins over time.

As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty.

It is never presumptuous for anyone to hope for realization. It is the goal of creation and the birthright of humanity. Blessed are they who are prepared to assert that right in this very life.

Don't Worry; be Happy! Remember Me; I will help you.

A horrible night might be hidden in a beautiful morning!

A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!

A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!

Are you feeling helpless when you think about the dark roads of the future? Then read the biographies of the great men! Learn their life stories; they will lead you to the light! Buddha will lead you to the light; Gandhi will lead you to the light! Men of wider horizons will broaden our own horizons!