Quotes About Hope

From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth.

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.

He lays on Peter: "When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." Jesus expects the frail disciple to become strong in grace, and so able and willing to help the weak. He cherishes this expectation with respect to all, but specially in regard to Peter, assuming that the weakest might and ought eventually to become the strongest; the last first, the greatest sinner the greatest saint; the most foolish the wisest, most benignant, and sympathetic of

It taught effectively two lessons,--one specially for the benefit of the twelve, and the other for all Christians and all ages. The lesson for the twelve was, that they might dismiss from their minds all fond hopes of a restoration of the kingdom to Israel. Not reconstruction, but dissolution and dispersion, was Israel's melancholy doom. The general lesson for all in this discourse is: "Watch, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

How often we sit weeping — you and I — over the life we lead! My friends, if you only knew the darkness of the days ahead!

When the earth opens up under your feet, be like a seed. Fall down; wait for the rain.

There is light suddenly everywhere, the light of your life speaking to you. What it tells you is almost the same as what happened. Never mind that almost isn't good enough; it's all you have.

believing trouble is gone forever is the beginning of a special kind of trouble.

I needed to teach writing students to hold on—to themselves, to what matters to them, to the present, the past, the future. And to the country. And to do so with what they write. We won't know when the world will end. If it ever does, we will be better served when it does by having done the work we can do.

Stories about the most difficult things need to provide catharsis, or the reader will stop reading, or go mad.

I loved him, in part, for what he might be someday, which is never a good way to love someone. It was in fact a way of rejecting him, a way of rejecting who he is now, and I think in some way we both knew this.

This was my slender bridge to the future, and I stepped onto it as carefully as I could.

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.

The hope of impunity is a strong incitement to sedition: the dread of punishment, a proportionably strong discouragement to it.

I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.

One place like another. That was true enough, he thought. Even the merchant seamen were the same. Every ship was the last. One more voyage, just enough pay and bounty saved, and it would be used to buy a little alehouse, a chandlery, a smallholding from some country squire. But it never seemed to happen, unless the man was thrown on the beach in peacetime, or rejected as a useless cripple. The sea always won in the end. The

He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

Vital spark of heav'nly flame!Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame:Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.