Quotes About Hope

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Everything comes to he who waits. I guess. At last, after at least 200 years of constant vigil, there was delivered to me a big, fat, lumpy letter. There are few things more thrilling in Life than lumpy letters. That rattle. Even to this day I feel a wild surge of exultation when I run my hands over an envelope that is thick, fat, and pregnant with mystery.

I was the victim of another American myth, namely that things can actually change for the better, that if you try hard enough you can transform the lead of your crummy self into some golden ideal.

Lots of people go back to other hospitals but not to Bloomingdale. It cured me. It made me feel if I was ever to commit suicide again, it had to be done. No more attempts. No more games.

You didn't give up wanting things because your life had put them out of reach.

Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.

It is true, I do expect bad things rather than good, and even when they are good I worry about when they will stop being good.

I've noticed that in films about holocausts and disasters and such it's always a young girl and an old man, right at the end, who have to get together for the sake of the future. I don't think I could do that, not with an old man, though maybe I could if it was all there was.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour".

Mum used to say one shouldn't wish one's life away, but she could never have imagined anything like this.

We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable.

But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time. (163)

The response to war is to live like brothers and sisters. The response to injustice is to share. The response to despair is a limitless trust and hope. The response to prejudice and hatred is forgiveness. To work for community is to work for humanity. To work for peace is to work for a true political solution; it is to work for the Kingdom of God. It is to work to enable every one to live and taste the secret joys of the human person united to the eternal.

It makes me almost hope I'm not a genius; they must be very wearying to have about - and awfully destructive to the furniture.

Whatever sky's above me, I've a heart for any fate.

You remember that illuminated text over the dining-room door--"The Lord Will Provide." We've painted it out, and covered the spot with rabbits. It's all very well to teach so easy a belief to normal children, who have a proper family and roof behind them; but a person whose only refuge in distress will be a park bench must learn a more militant creed than that.

Don't you think it would be interesting if you really could read the story of your life - written perfectly and truthfully by an omniscient author? ... how many could suppress their curiosity sufficiently to escape from reading it, even at the price of having to live without hope and without surprise?

I sometimes long to pat him on the head and tell him to cheer up; the world's full of sunshine, and some of it's for him.

This is your heart. Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

?nsan kendi karanl?klarda bo?ulurken, ba?kalar?na nas?l ???k da??t?r?

Quando não há esperança, sempre fica o orgulho.

Leurs cheveux pouvaient bien grouiller de poux, leurs gencives saigner, leurs ventres crier dans le vide, ils avaient l'éclatante santé des rêveurs.

My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court. You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face.