Quotes About Hope

You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty.

Goddammit. Can't I save you just once ?

I've only imagined seeing you again. That you'd come to my home. That I'd run into you on the street. That I'd look up, and you'd be there, and you'd be well . . . and I'd tell you that I love you.

Perhaps we should see what comes next.

I'll never be lonely Even if I am alone For I've a precious Savior Who'll come to take me home. But while I'm here His servant I will be With one foot on earth And one in eternity. And I'll gather His crops To populate His land And if I feel weary I'll cling tighter to his hand.

I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more--much, much more.

I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.

Sometimes we have to let our dreams go in order to allow God to bring them back to us - in his way and his timing.

New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.

Don't worry about how bad things look right now. It's all going to fall into place. You'll see.

Being a man, ne'er ask the gods for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

No one ought to despond in adverse circumstances, for they may turn out to be the cause of good to us.*

Ningú no neix per viure entre reixes.

La vida és alegre o trista, segons com la miris. De vegades penses que no saps viure. O t'imagines que n'hi ha que són feliços i aleshores tot els sembla més bonic: potser un dia o altre et tocarà.

And when Quimet saw the doves flying above our roof and only above our roof, his face stopped looking so yellow and he said everything was okay. When the doves got sick of flying they started to come down, first one and then another. They went back in the dovecote like old ladies going to mass, taking little steps and jerking their heads like wind-up toys.

Todos tenemos una vida que quién sabe cómo será, pero cuanta más vida haya por delante más esperanza.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

Sabía que lo esencial en esos casos era vencer la timidez; ser tajante y mostrarse decidida. Antes de llegar hasta allí yo misma me había hecho un lavado de cerebro para mentalizarme. Nada de tener miedo. Pero si el miedo apuntaba, había que considerar que también el miedo es un derivado de la esperanza; una especie de esperanza al revés. Todo era cuestión de enderezarla. (P. 64)

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

In the midst of death's relentless power, I yet among the living stand

The lights come on and my future returns in the glare.

The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.

I wrote it for insomniacs at three in the morning who were wondering how they'd get through the next day. And I wrote it for my past self, that girl who promised herself she'd write a book someday.

We live in an era of horseless carriages, wireless telegraphy, husbandless wives and wifeless husbands. I have hit upon a formula which I am tempted to utilize hereafter when I meet husbandless women. When they are introduced I shall ask: - Shaken, Or taken? signifying in the first instance a loss by way of Nevada, or, in the second, through the pearlier gates of that Paradise which is the hope of us all.