Quotes About Hope

Martin Luther King, Jr. hoped for a color-blind society, but only as oppression and racism were destroyed.

His dreams were the natural reflex of hope and redeemed curiosity.

We are all glittering stars and one day we will come together in the brightest star of all – God himself. This is humanity's destiny. Is that not an inspiring vision of humanity? We are not mere humans; we are divine beings, a community of gods en route to becoming God himself.

Once you get below negative twenty, you purposely don't think. It's like there's no atheists in a foxhole. Same with negative twenty. That's when you do have religion. You do pray. You pray for warmth.

But what is hope? When all else is lost, it is the one thing you may keep.

During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.

Expecto Patronum

Michael G. Santos

Michael G. Santos

Less past, more future!

To those who will see, the world awaits.

Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.

Life is my nightmare now, and paradoxically, my dreams have become escapes.

Hope is the best form of torture

Karl Rahner said, 'I don't believe in miracles, but they sustain me.

When you spot someone with failings, see them the way they one day can be. Pray them to be that.

Socialism is still beginning, a task to be accomplished, not a destiny to be awaited.

I met this kid from Miles City, Montana, who read the Stars and Stripes every day, checking the casualty lists to see if by some chance anybody form his home town had been killed. He didn't even know if there was anyone else from Miles City in Vietnam, but he checked anyway because he knew for sure that if there was someone else and they got killed, he would be all right. "I mean, can you just see *two* guys from a raggedy-ass town like Miles City getting killed in Vietnam?

He hadn't been anything but tired and scared for six months and he'd lost a lot, mostly people, and seen far too much, but he was breathing in and breathing out, some kind of choice all by itself.

Everybody hurts (REM)

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.

Michael J. Fox

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.