Quotes About Hope

Probably is absolutely the best I can do.

Luckily, he had the memory span of a particularly dim goldfish, so with any luck he'd have forgotten all about the comment by the time they'd completed their mission.

There are a lot of hopes riding on you. But there is a lot of prejudice against you too.

it's always darkest before the dawn." Artemis looked at her. "What dawn? We're in the Arctic, remember?

She cast her eyes toward the heavens. "Help," she cried. And it began to rain diamonds.

Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers.

There was nothing in Holly Short's future but death. Her current future. But the future could be changed.

I was a broken boy, and you fixed me.

Squib could allow that he missed having a daddy, even a fake one, so long as he kept that thought inside his own head. Even if that daddy did drink beer like it was keeping him alive instead of the opposite. Even if he did raid Momma's coffee can for change and spend it on lottery scratch tickets.

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Be careful to leave your sons [and daughters] well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. [in brackets: though I have only sons, I am--of course--someone's daughter]

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

And then we'll be emulating Socrates,* once we're able to write hymns of praise in prison.

Pain too is just a scary mask: look under it and you will see. The body sometimes suffers, but relief is never far behind.

Our lives are not good—it is not the Afghanistan we remember—but it is still life.

If heaven may be found here and now, then heaven cannot be merely found in the absence of struggle as most of us assume, but in the very heart of our struggles. If Jesus' message is true, then our deepest challenges may offer our most profound opportunities. Heaven is found in the Dark Wood!

We shall lie down," Lincoln warned, "pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free; and we shall awake to the reality, instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State." Lincoln

Still, let us not disarm, even in unsatisfactory times. Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. The world will not get better on its own.

If their way was a blind alley, let us not deny them the longing for liberty and justice which moved them.

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

Things which are not are indeed mightier than things that are. In all ages men have fought most desperately for beautiful cities yet to be built and gardens yet to be planted.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.