Quotes About Hope

How many miracles does it take? Not too many.

It's not what I've done, Allie thinks to herself, it's what I'm going to do. And the voice says: It's what Eve's going to do.

It's enough for her to know, sitting in there in the dark, that if she really wanted to she could get out. The knowledge is as good as freedom.

I always fancied having a destiny,

The closer you are to death, the more you want to live.

I know you feel that everything's been taken away from you. But you'll get things back. It just won't be quite like before. But it'll still be good.

There can always be healing, even if there is no cure.

Naomi Mitchison,

But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.

And more to the point, I was reasonably certain he wasn't going to try and devour my soul. My expectations for a husband had lowered.

wasn't it better to feel that when that chaos engulfed you, there was a benevolent God ready to help you through, rather than the emptiness of an indifferent universe?

Yes, it is so hard to dream and live and not to find what we want. So much has been given to us, but somehow not what we want. There is always something missing, always something we could have had, should have had. We do not understand why God denies us these things; why He is deaf to our prayers.

The only cure for grief, someone had once told her, was love.

How do they manage to go on living?.....By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.

He who gives life, nourishes life. He listens, this I can tell you. Whatever happens, He's listening. He doesn't always answer right away. He doesn't always say yes. But He's listening. This much I promise you.

this was the only answer she'd ever found to evil: to go on living and to help others live in happiness.

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

I want to be someone making music/with my coming.

Don't fear, I am with you.

One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see.