Quotes About Hope

In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn't thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.

There is no panacea for this kind of loss. Just know that every day it gets the tiniest bit better-- suddenly one day you can put it in a different perspective.

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.' Pursuit

Leo Burnett said it better, 'When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

Get rid of sad dogs who spread gloom.

Consider the future, Moldenke. Do you imagine we'll ever get there?

Often, these fantasies are barely based on reality and no longer involve an emotional attachment to others, since these young adults were so deeply disappointed in their parents. In effect, the young adult has given up hope of emotional support from the human community and has substituted grandiose fantasies of unlimited power or fame.

The hopeful self serves as a lifesaving antidote to the bitter and envious wounded self, which often becomes committed to destroying the rejecting aspects of the parents or other adults in positions of authority.

My God, I pray that I may so know You and love you, that I may rejoice in You. And if I may not do so fully in this life, let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that in fullness.

Then I discover when you take a step forward, even a small step, the fear doesn't exercise such a tight grip. It's still there but it's somehow reduced and you allow yourself to feel less of a helpless victim because ultimately it's the sense of powerlessness that does you in.

If you have not been born again, a day will come when you wish you had never been born at all.

faith is not content with asking once or twice, but will go on asking, seeking and knocking until the prayer is answered ( Luke 11:9-13).

As we go through the Bible, when we come across a promise of God that is a 'pearl' of his wisdom you will find at the heart of it a piece of grit, a pain, an irritation, a suffering.

faith, hope and love are the three main virtues in life.

Once upon a time, in the Official Version, we were blessed and happy, our parents young, privileged and good-looking, we, their children, bound for special destinies like they'd had. In Boston, our ship struck the iceberg and went down in an hour, but all hands appeared to make to the lifeboats. The trip to shore proves long, and only when we finally muster do we realize one of us is missing.

You are afraid, afraid of your dreams, your dreams which were once your friends, your best friends, are now your enemies, your worst enemies.

The sun comes out but the rain stays put. No rainbows today. Not here.

You wake up and for those few seconds, minutes, you forget; forget you are injured; forget you are finished.

You've had enough of failure. Doubts. Had enough of disappointment.

For the first time my prayers were not for me but for everyone else, that all of those things in my notebooks, on all of those tapes, in all of those envelopes and bags in my room, that none of them were true, that the dead were alive and the lost were found, and that all of those lives could be lived anew.

The future, like the past, is written. It cannot be changed, but it can help to heal the wounds of the present.

I prayed for my mother and sister, for my uncles and aunts, for the friends I'd had, both good and bad, and last for my father wherever he was, Amen.

I wanted to sleep for a thousand years, to wake up when them and their like were gone, when I didn't have their dirty black ink on my fingers, in my blood.

For the first time my prayers were not for me but for everyone else, that the dead were alive and the lost were found, and that all those lives could be lived anew.