Quotes About Hope

My hole is warm and full of light.

Boo'ful, she said, life could be so diff'rent— But it never is, I said.

New York! he said. That's not a place, it's a dream.

Which suggested to me that a novel could be fashioned as a raft of hope, perception and entertainment that might help keep us afloat as we tried to negotiate the snags and whirlpools that mark our nation's vacillating course toward and away from the democratic ideal.

Gin, jazz and dreams were not enough.

Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.

people face Death and even go a piece with him and then wrestle with him and get away, thank the Lord, and return. Yes, but how many have I seen pass on and

And I knew in spite of the anguish within me that the sun goeth down.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

The sun shines today also.

Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

Some of your hurts you have cured, and the sharpest you've even survived. But what torments of grief you've endured from evils which never arrived - Ralph Waldo Emerson

He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.

Dream delivers us to dream and there is no end to illusion.