Quotes About Hope

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.

Come out, Neville.

We are all of us blue babies. At critical seconds, we all lack necessary air.

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

La pena va royendo el corazón humano lentamente. La gente cree a menudo que, moviéndose, podrá superarla.

Hope has wings that make it fly.

men with guns stole our future by killing the best of our leaders, again and again—in one single tragic year, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. And day after day, death upon death, they steal our dreams by killing the people we love.

when all else fails, he thought, make an offering to the god of laughter.

People often attempt to compensate for this loss of hope by comforting themselves with "consolation prizes": easy but self-destructive habits like too much TV, too much junk food, too much shopping, not enough exercise, endless video games. And sometimes they distract themselves with riskier behavior: alcohol and drugs, debt,

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls' most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122

It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.

My mom used to say that faith and fear can't exist simultaneously in the mind any more than light and dark can exist simultaneously in the same room.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another.

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

Snow is falling outside and all is peaceful and still. In such moments it is possible to believe that the world could still be good.

Believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow shot from His own bow. It is the single universal trait that the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended on it... for indeed it does.

As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

I once read that the secret to happiness is having something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love.