Quotes About Hope

Looking around, I wonder what is it that makes my fellows able to bear such a life. How can they face the day, when I can't? Is there some secret to living that makes its conditions irrelevant? A neutering of expectation, a mastery of the mundane? Or have they just grown accustomed to rape?

Imagine Cara caring enough to make a police report about an abused child knowing the information will likely be unwelcome to the police, enraging to the parent, and unappreciated by the child, knowing nothing might happen, or worse, that the kid may be beaten for the trouble it causes—yet hoping this case is one where the child is actually helped. There's nothing depressing about the heroism teachers show every day.

The future comes one day at a time.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

The future is just a memory that has yet to be born

Hope springs eternal, unfortunately it springs from a well poisoned with Jim Jones' Kool Aid

There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d'etats on the state of irrational optimism

Utopias can only be built on the ruins of reality

We are all on Death Row, but some of us are looking at parole

Freedom of hearing. The objective ( the thing said ) and the subjective (the thing heard ) if you need "accredited" mediators and censors to police your subjectivity there's really not much hope for you.

Everyone loses faith at some point. Take me for example. I haven't spoken to God since your mother died... But sometimes, you have to stop and remember all the things you do have. You've got to be thankful.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope

There will be much darkness ahead—but, in the end, there will be light.

The world is worth fighting for.

No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.

May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your face and the rains fall softly upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand." Afterward