Quotes About Hope

Is that where we're at? Finding joy in the prospect of slightly diminished atrocities?

Don't worry. These cowboys are all in line. Nice, law-abiding batch here, only want to help you reach your dreams. They're nothing like that last group who rolled through town with branding irons and rape-trusses and shotguns. These are the good guys.

Is that where we're at? Finding joy in the prospect of slightly diminished atrocities?

It made me feel that bad things could happen but they didn't have to stay bad. Sometimes they could get better, with a bit of help.

He grabbed the microphone in both hands, his face exploding into a smile at the sensation. "Hey. Do not. I repeat. Do. Not. Panic. There's nothing to be scared of. This is just your average everyday fucking miracle.

He whispered against my mouth. "Wait for me, Aura.

Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They also forget that music can be a source of hope, a reason to live.

Logan followed my gaze. "I wonder if there'll be stars where I'm going." "If there aren't now, there will be once you show up.

If you follow love, you can't go wrong, even if it leads to disaster. Trust it." Raphael to Lucifer

When you're in hell, there's nothing left to fear.

But in the depth of Zachary's weary, determined eyes, I saw more than a desperate longing. I saw a future.

The future is as far from perfect and as full of errors as this baseball game, but at this moment, it's all mine. And I guess that's something

I thought I was long done with the Firsts. First Easter since his death, First Birthday, First Trip to IHOP, First Phillies Game. But everything we ever did together, that we'd never share again--like Longwood Gardens at Christmas--still waited before me. In that moment, I dreaded the rest of my life.

Unwilling to play the hand that is dealt [to] him, the borderline keeps folding every time, losing his ante, waiting to be dealt four aces. If he cannot be assured of winning, he won't play out the hand. Improvement comes when he learns to accept the hand for what it is, and recognize that, skillfully played, he can still win.

Christ is our redemption, for He is at once our Redeemer and our Ransom. Christ is all, that he who has left all for Christ may find One in place of all, and may be able to proclaim freely, " The Lord is my portion.

The cerebral processing of that visceral input as a signal of death was accurate. Without the kinds of therapy that had been developed over the decades, this cancer would have been fatal. Hope, then, is constructed not just from rational deliberation, from the conscious weighing of information; it arises as an amalgam of thought and feeling, the feelings created in part by neural input from the organs and tissues.

Researchers are learning that a change in mind-set has the power to alter neurochemistry. Belief and expectation—the key elements of hope—can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.

True hope has no room for delusion.

To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen.

Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.

I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

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Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

We must look hopeful.