Quotes About Hope

he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't.

he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over. The thing to do was go.

I needed a man," Call replied. "I was hoping he might turn out to be a fighter." "No, he's just a jailer," Billy said.

Larry McMurtry

It's not the end of the world, Pea. Just pick up and keep going.

The bad things that had happened to her had not killed her. They had not even killed the laughter in her.

Of course, children were endless work. They came when you didn't want them and had needs you didn't always want to meet. Worst of all they died no matter how much you loved them. The death of her own had frozen the hope inside her harder than the wintery ground. Her hopes had frozen hard and she vowed to keep it that way, and yet she hadn't. The hopes thawed.

Among a broken people an unbroken man can only rarely be tolerated—he becomes a too-painful reminder of what the people as a whole had once been.

recent experience had shown him that men had to use what hope they could muster, to stay alive.

things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over.

Everything starts as somebody's dream.

travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. - Robert Louis Stevenson

He stood quite still, freezing, and somebody somewhere owed him infinite love.

O ser humano, esse estranho animal, balançando entre animal e esperança.

Let go, gatito. Mourn and then move on. Your life is not over. Not by any means. So let the tears fall for the past and then we will speak of the future.

Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won't be.

If things were eventually going to work out, did it matter how you got there? Didn't it ultimately just matter that you got the ending you wanted?

A small, inexplicable part of me was scared, right from the start - of counting on someone, of trusting that he'd always be there for me - as much it was exactly what another part of me wanted.

It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way--as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as you hold onto the hope of it less tightly, you get a second shot at it.

I don't deserve a second chance, but sometimes when someone doesn't, that's exactly when you need to give them one.

How do you explain it when you find in someone what you've been waiting for your whole life? Do you call it fate? It feels lazy to call it fate. It's more like finding your way home—where home is a place you secretly hoped for, a place you imagined, but where you'd never before been.

How do you explain it when you find in someone what you've been waiting for your whole life? Do you call it fate? It feels lazy to call it fate. It's more like finding your way home—where home is a place you secretly hoped for, a place you imagined, but where you'd never before been. Home. When you weren't sure you'd ever get to have one. That's what he was to me. That's who he was.

I'm not sure we get to, Annie," he said. "I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for.

How do you explain it when you find in someone what you've been waiting for