Quotes About Hope

We cannot dispair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.

Sometimes it feels as though one is surely committing spiritual suicide. It feels that all that is best in one's life is being eroded and lost. But still go on. This is faith.

If it's a freak to be the only puppy in a litter," answered the Mistress, refusing to part with her enthusiasm over the miracle, "then this one ought to bring us luck. Let's call him 'Bruce.' You remember, the original Bruce won because of the mystic number, seven. This Bruce has got to make up to us for the seven puppies that weren't born. See how proud she is of him! Isn't she a sweet little mother?

Consciousness of innocence is an excellent anchor, no doubt. But what good is an anchor after the ship has sunk?

Would Man but deign to serve his God as they, Millennium must dawn within the year.

Out stepped Lass, - tired, confused, a little frightened, but eagerly willing to make friends with a world which she still insisted on believing was friendly. It is hard to shake a collie pup's inborn faith in the friendliness of mankind, but once shaken, it is more than shaken. It is shattered beyond hope of complete mending.

the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.

What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

Jesus was called to throw himself on the wheel of world history, so that, even though it crushed him, it might start to turn in the opposite direction. Tom Wright, The Lord and His Prayer (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1996), 69.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

The tragedy in a man's life is what dies inside of him while he lives.

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

Me confesarás que un amor correspondido tiene mil veces más fuerzas para aferrares al corazón que el que vive de suspiros y sin esperanza -Rafael san Luis

Dignity cannot wait for better times.

Tú estás solo, pero no por eso mereces morir.

El que está enamorado -o agarrado- no puede opinar demasiado, tan sólo cruzar los dedos y esperar lo mejor.

For the working man there is no abyss...that's why he jumps.