Quotes About Hope

It's a hard thing to risk what you know and are sure of, just for the possibility of something better. Even when it's a pretty strong possibility, and something that's a whole lot better.

That was uncomfortable.Am I dead? No such luck

She had hoped it would be at least a little longer before the knights started coming back, so she couldn't help sighing as she stuck a leather bookmark in the book and closed it. Then she went out to argue with whoever it was until they went away.

Life is not meant to be easy, child. That is why we pray for God's strength to help us bear it.

you can do one of two things. You can blame God for your misery or you can turn to Him and draw strength from His love. He is always there for us.

Pray to God for guidance and take things one day at a time.

after the rain bomb craters filled with stars - John Brandi

I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

headed for her bedroom and her closet. Her whole future rested

It was now, the day I had been dreaming about for so long. No longer a dream but real. Not to be wasted but to be lived.

If you hold a four-leaf shamrock in your left hand at dawn on St. Patrick's Day you get what you want very much but haven't wished for.

Things happen, Jacob," I heard Sarah say. "The rope broke. I could have died." "Don't, Sarah," said Papa. "You could have lost me, Jacob," said Sarah. "And that's the way life is. Something happens . . . one little moment in time. If you're lucky, you have a chance to make things better. You have that chance here. Don't let it pass.

All the time you fighting, you think only of how to survive. All the time you survive, you wonder why you don't die. But now my life can be something different. Now, in America, I don't have to fight. I don't have to survive. I can chose a new thing: to live.

Wenn ich jetzt falle, stehe ich nie wieder auf. Also gehe ich weiter.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed.

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

A KIND OF ILLNESS This ache in my chest is a relentless thing, worse than any fever. A fever is gone with a few of Mumtaz's white pills. But this illness has had me in its grip for a week now. This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me.

I have been beaten here, locked away, violated a hundred times and a hundred times more. I have been starved and cheated, tricked and disgraced. How odd it is that I am undone by the simple kindness of a small boy with a yellow pencil.

I have been beaten here, locked away, violated a hundred times, and a hundred times more. I have been starved, and cheated, tricked and disgraced. How odd is it that I am undone by the simple kindness of a small boy with a yellow pencil.

Patricia Morrisroe