Quotes About Hope

It was a process of suggesting, in throw-it-against-the-wall style, what the president might want, and hoping he might then think that he had thought of this himself

At points on the day's spectrum of adverse political developments, he could have moments of, almost everyone would admit, irrationality. When that happened, he was alone in his anger and not approachable by anyone. His senior staff largely dealt with these dark hours by agreeing with him, no matter what he said. And if some of them occasionally tried to hedge, Hope Hicks never did. She agreed absolutely with all of it.

Trump did not enjoy his own inauguration. He had hoped for a big blowout.

His son-in-law and daughter hoped—they were even confident—that they could speak to DJT's better self, or at least balance Republican needs with progressive rationality, compassion, and good works.

Even when it seems that we're surrounded by apostates and enemies, even when it seems we're alone and that everyone around us has defected, we must remember God's message to Elijah. Listen for the gentle whisper of the Spirit. Remember that God always reserves a remnant of faithful followers for himself. Therefore, stand strong in your faithfulness to the Lord, so that you will always be counted among God's faithful remnant.

The truth that sets us free is this: Jesus is the one and only way to everlasting life.

The cross of Christ gave power to the powerless. It gave strength to the weak. It brought salvation to repentant sinners. It brought hope to the hopeless. It gave peace to troubled hearts. What was true then it is still true today.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

Unhappiness isn't at its most acute point until a realistic chance of happiness, sufficiently close, has been envisioned.

What the boy felt was something pure, something gentle, something that predates sex or sensual fulfillment. It was the simple desire to reach out and touch a loving body, to be held in loving arms. Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so difficult to give up hope.

It was amazing, even, to think that the only thing left to people in their despair was reading.

Some people live to be seventy, sometimes eighty years old believing there is always something new just around the corner, as they say; in the end they practically have to be killed or at least reduced to a state of serious incapacity to get them to see reason.

our student years are the only happy ones, when the future seems open, when everything seems possible, and after that adulthood and career are only a slow and progressive process of ending up in a rut. That's probably also why the friendships of our youth, the ones we make during our time as students and which are our only true friendships, never survive into adulthood: we avoid seeing them so as not to be confronted by witnesses to our crushed hopes, the evidence of our defeat.

To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame; I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred; at most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live; and what's more, we continue to export it.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir.

Nefericirea noastr? nu atinge apogeul decât atunci când am întrez?rit, îndeajuns de aproape, posibilitatea practic? a fericirii.

He trusted that I would have a very pleasant stay: it was so peaceful, and the meals were delicious. As he said it, I realized that he was expressing not just a belief, but a hope, because he was one of those people, and you don't see them every day, who take an instinctive pleasure in the happiness of their fellow men – that he was, in other words, a nice guy.

Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien.

Pero en realidad no hay nada que impida el regreso, cada vez más frecuente, de esos momentos en que tu absoluta soledad, la sensación de vacuidad universal, el presentimiento de que tu vida se acerca a un desastre doloroso y definitivo, se conjugan para hundirte en un estado de verdadero sufrimiento. Y, sin embargo, todavía no tienes ganas de morir.

People cannot live without God; life becomes unbearable.

These immigrants held out the hope of a new golden age for the old continent.