Quotes About Hope

trust—not clarity, not certainty, but trust in God. And all of that poured out to the people around her.

I am amazed and encouraged by those who have lived through these moments of hell on earth and have continued on in the life of faith anyway. They have something to teach people like me: no matter what we think we know, no matter how sure we happen to think we are, suffering is the place where our sense of certainty about God's ways fades like a dream and forces us to consider that what we know may not be as central to our faith as we might think.

getting a second chance is the greatest human dream and delusion we have. It even outranks religion.

You know what I think? Edenists don't get caught in the beyond because you're cool enough under pressure to figure your way out. Well, me too, pal. Laton said there was a way out. I believe him. The Kiint found it. Just knowing that it's possible is my ticket to exit.

There must be so many humans spread across the galaxy now; it isn't hard to think they found one star that's safe from the enemy.

And he saved them. My son. Because of him, they will live, and have children, and laugh. But it hurts! That's because we're human, more so than Adamists can ever be. Our empathy means we can never hide from what we feel, and that's good.

Peter F. Hamilton

Despite the evidence, that lost part of Jed's heart had wanted to believe in his divine savour and her promises of a better world.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. - Tochee

Hope doesn't die just because a life is lost, or even a million lives.

Millions of humans live inside the Void. They live lives full of hope and love and laughter; they live lives better than any of us out here.

There must be a way.

From small foundations of hope, empires can be built.

All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebody's head

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Churchill is still warning his people that "Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping it will eat you last," and imploring that "Nothing can save England if she will not save herself.

Grief can be an incredible source of energy. For good.

posible que me caiga —concluí—, pero mientras siga respirando y tenga fuerzas para seguir esforzándome, me levantaré.

Cuanto más deseamos algo, mayor es nuestro miedo a no conseguirlo.

Pues conozco los planes que tengo para ti, dice el Señor, planes para que prosperes y no para perjudicarte, planes para darte futuro y esperanza.»

Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame and a modest 10 percent frail awareness of the possibility of love. I don't fall in love any more. Just like I don't get the mumps.

Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of forty-five per cent fear of not being accepted and forty-five per cent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame, and a modest ten per cent frail awareness of the possibility of love. [...] Falling in love is a form of madness. Closely related to hatred, coldness, resentment, intoxication, and suicide.

Verliebtheiten werden maßlos überschätzt. Verliebtheiten bestehen zu fünfundvierzig Prozent aus der Furcht davor, nicht akzeptiert zu werden, zu fünfundvierzig Prozent aus der manischen Hoffnung, dass diese Furcht ausgerechnet diesmal beschämt wird, und zu bescheidenen zehn Prozent aus dem zerbrechlichen Gefühl für die Möglichkeit der Liebe.

You spend your whole life believing that you will always be on the outside or on the borderline. You struggle and struggle, and yet it all seems to be in vain. And then, suddenly, you are allowed inside and lifted up into the light.