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He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could've been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn't drag itself out of the opened box.
— K.J. Parker, Sharps
I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
Never loose hope. Stay strong, you never know what tomorrow brings.
— Magith Noohukhan
But that's just it; I can either focus on what I have lost, or what I have gained, and I choose the latter.
— Angie  Smith, Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.
— Octavia E. Butler
I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me - I cared about myself. I wanted me to live a better life, too Caring about myself was allowing me to care about others.
— Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved
We’re a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we’ll never be stopped.
— George Lucas, A New Hope
When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone to Betrayal.. and whn u r Betrayed.. Hell falls over U...!!!
— Abhijeet Sawant
I kept reaching for my muses,my wandering muses, floatingon clouds filled with their passions.”(Muses of Wandering Passions, p. 64)
— Chimnese Davids, Muses of Wandering Passions
Maybe the future is like rowing for shore. Your only choice is to try or give up.
— Kristen Chandler, Wolves, Boys and Other Things That Might Kill Me
We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generations.
— John Rachel, A Long Night's Journey Into Daylight
The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow – Hope shining upon the tears of grief.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
I made a sorry face in response to such strong insistence, but I couldn’t believe him. Fantasies were exactly that..…..fantasies. Whimsy. Wishes. Mere castles in the sky without foundation or substance. Dreams didn’t come true. To believe so would be to believe falsely, to surrender to madness, to give in to an unreliable hope that would crush me once again as it always, always did!
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.
— Mary Balogh, A Matter of Class
When our dreams don’t come true, sometimes we can hand them down to our children and hope that they will come true for them. The joy can be immeasurable just the same.
— Isabel  Lopez, Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams
It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in such a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not always wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Worry looks back, Hope looks forward, but Faith always looks up.
— Umair Naeem, Drowning Shadows
He wore his hope like a winter coat, layered over the top of all of him.
— Cora Carmack, Losing It
You can never run from your past; it defines who you are today. But, use your Awo given intelligence and enjoy the future…because THAT only comes once.’ VAALBARA The Land of Shadows
— Michelle Horst
When Hope disappears ~ Faith steps in...
— JerriFaye Thomason
Even after centuries of human interacting, children still continue to rebel against their parents and siblings. Young marrieds look upon their in-laws and parents as obstacles to their independence and growth. Parents view their children as selfish ingrates. Husbands desert their wives and seek greener fields elsewhere. Wives form relationships with heroes of soap operas who vicariously bring excitement and romance into their empty lives. Workers often hate their bosses and co-workers and spend miserable hours with them, day after day. On a larger scale, management cannot relate with labour. Each accuses the other of unreasonable self-interests and narrow-mindedness. Religious groups often become entrapped, each in a provincial dogma resulting in hate and vindictiveness in the name of God. Nations battle blindly, under the shadow of the world annihilation, for the realization of their personal rights. Members of these groups blame rival groups for their continual sense of frustration, impotence, lack of progress and communication. We have obviously not learned much over the years. We have not paused long enough to consider the simple truth that we humans are not born with particular attitudinal sets regarding other persons, we are taught into them. We are the future generation's teachers. We are, therefore, the perpetrators of the confusion and alienation we abhor and which keeps us impotent in finding new alternatives. It is up to us to diligently discover new solutions and learn new patterns of relating, ways more conducive to growth, peace, hope and loving coexistence. Anything that is learned can be unlearned and relearned. In this process called change lies our real hope.
— Leo Buscaglia, Loving Each Other
Dead my old fine hopesAnd dry my dreaming but still...Iris, blue each spring
— Bashō Matsuo, Japanese Haiku
One who has hope lives differently.
— Pope Benedict XVI
And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.
— Cressida Cowell, How to Twist a Dragon's Tale
But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent.
— Tabitha Suzuma, A Note of Madness
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
— Orison Swett Marden
People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.
— Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!
We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.
— John Rucyahana, The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones
What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it?
— Andre Dubus, Dancing After Hours
The living dead had taken more from us than land and loved ones. They'd robbed us of our confidence as the planet's dominant life form. We were a shaken, broken species, driven to the edge of extinction and grateful only for tomorrow with perhaps a little less suffering than today. Was this the legacy we would leave our children, a level of anxiety and self-doubt not seen since our simian ancestors cowered in the tallest trees? What kind of world would they rebuild? Would they rebuild at all? Could they continue to progress, knowing that they would be powerless to reclaim their future? And what if that future saw another rise of the living dead? Would our descendants rise to meet them in battle, or simply crumple in meek surrender and accept what they believe to be their inevitable extinction? For this alone, we had to reclaim our planet. We had to prove to ourselves that we could do it, and leave that proof as this war's greatest monument. The long, hard road back to humanity, or the regressive ennui of Earth's once-proud primates. That was the choice, and it had to be made now.
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
— Samuel Smiles
Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.
— Gayla Reid, All the Seas of the World
Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's trunk. Behind Tacy's house the sun had set. A wind had sprung up and the trees, their color dimmed, moved under a brooding sky. All the stories she had told Tacy and Tib seemed to be dancing in those trees, along with all the stories she planned to write some day and all the stories she would read at the library. Good stories. Great stories. The classics. Not Rena's novels.
— Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and the despair might spill everywhere, stain everything.
— Sam Taylor
The God I believe in believes in me and won’t silence my heart or others based on a paycheck at the end of the day.
— Shannon L. Alder
I really rarely meet someone with quality like this:has great expectation and persistent efforts to earn it,yet also had a high immunity against disappointment.Jarang sekali aku bertemu orang dengan kualitas seperti ini:memiliki harapan besar dan upaya gigih untuk mencapainya,namun juga punya kekebalan yang tinggi terhadap kekecewaan.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Keep your eyes on the future, because that's where the answers are. It's where the hope is.
— Holly Cupala, Tell Me a Secret
‎Now I think ultimately our hope is certainly that people can feel and taste the goodness of God and to find the salvation in Jesus's love and sacrifice. Sometimes the biggest barrier to that has been Christians and has been a Church that is numb to the poverty of the world or just sees our Christianity as a ticket into heaven while ignoring the hells of the world around us. And we're not willing to settle for that kind of Christianity. We believe in a kingdom that begins now and that the kingdom of God Jesus preached is not just something we're to go to when we die but that we're to bring down on earth as it is in heaven.
— Shane Claiborne
It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
But love doesn't always generate hope. Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much love or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water--the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it.
— Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead
Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.
— Augustine of Hippo, Daily Readings with St. Augustine
She was a dreamer and a schemer & one didnt dream and scheme without hope.
— Loretta Chase, Silk Is for Seduction
I am forever grateful for not knowing—What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy.
— Erica Goros
Action is what makes hope a reality.
— T.M. Brenner
Oh, but I was an idiot. Wanting to be whatever magic she waited for, when I had no magic - only darkness or death to give. But it seemed in that one instant, when she turned to discover what was behind her, that I could have brought happiness to at least one mortal. Me and my dreams of goodness. I had always been a fool for them.
— Krisi Keley, On the Soul of a Vampire
The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
— Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Every hope of the future is meaningless unless I have faith that you and I will share it together.
— Elizabeth George Speare, Calico Captive
As I age in the world it will rise and spread,and be for this place horizonand orison, the voice of its winds.I have made myself a dream to dreamof its rising, that has gentled my nights.Let me desire and wish well the lifethese trees may live when Ino longer rise in the morningsto be pleased with the green of themshining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them.
— Wendell Berry
Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
— Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being. For years, my husband and I lived on -- and because of -- hope. Hope continues to give me the mental strength to carry on.
— Dana Reeve
Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower
Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.
— Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
God is writing His story on the pages of our lives.
— Rick  Anderson
In tough and desperate times when your creativity begs to be birthed, loose the confines of the ground; stand up in your faith and walk atop the waves…
— Stanice Anderson
Hope and faith underlie a promise,and love energizes men to realize it.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise
— Tracy L. Conway, I Wandered from New Orleans: Poems from the South
Christian hope frees us to act hopefully in the world. It enables us to act humbly and patiently, tackling visible injustices in the world around us without needing to be assured that our skill and our effort will somehow rid the world of injustice altogether. Christian hope, after all, does not need to see what it hopes for (Heb. 11:1); and neither does it require us to comprehend the end of history. Rather, it simply requires us to trust that even the most outwardly insignificant of faithful actions - the cup of cold water given to the child, the widow's mite offered at the temple, the act of hospitality shown to the stranger, none of which has any overall strategic socio-political significance so far as we can now see - will nevertheless be made to contribute in some significant way to the construction of God's kingdom by the action of God's creative and sovereign grace.
— Craig M. Gay, The Way of the (Modern) World: Or, Why It's Tempting to Live As If God Doesn't Exist
Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had.
— Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain. --Valentine, while in Italy (pg 267)
— Adriana Trigiani, Very Valentine
The key is loveIt is the gatewayTo hopeTo joyTo enhanced livingLove is the answer
— Karen Hackel, The Whisper of Your Soul
I am planting a tree in this bomb crater to remind us that in the midst of death, there is life... and hope.
— Robert S. Graetz
The lovers of the world are the ones who matter. Forget the rest. Jesus was a lover. He doesn't hate anyone.
— Scylar Tyberius, Sebastian the Great
It’s like we have the bones of animals and the hearts of angels.
— Baxter Clare Trautman, The River Within
When in darkness....strike a match
— John Paul Warren
Don't ever lose hope because better days will come.
— Ana Monnar
Consistent, Timely encouragement has the staggering magnetic power to draw an immortal soul to the God of Hope. The one whose name is Wonderful Counselor.
— Charles R. Swindoll
David’s mouth dripped open slowly. He stood with his heels dug into my carpet, a dashed hope, a broken dream. No amount of money could top the priceless look that gathered on his face like an unmade bed. His eyebrows crumpled and furrowed like disheveled sheets. His lips curled into an acidic smirk. Confusion and shock collided in the cornea of his dilated pupils. He was a B.B. King song, personified. His entire body sang the blues.
— Brandi L. Bates, Quirk
quote from Chase the Moon- Some people are just downright wicked, and sometimes evil wins - but not always.
— Lynn Hubbard
I hope Limitless.. and its this Limitless hope that pushes me forward to live this Life..!!!
— Abhijeet Sawant
If ever I was running, it was towards you.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years — across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break because our souls are tied.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
We grow up with such an idealistic view on how our life should be; love, friendships, a career or even the place we will live ~ only to age and realise none of it is what you expected & reality is a little disheartening, when you've reached that realisation; you have learnt the gift of all, any new beginning can start now and if you want anything bad enough you'll find the courage to pursue it with all you have. The past doesn't have to be the future, stop making it so.
— Nikki Rowe
Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger’s cat inside a box you can never ever open.
— David Mitchell, Slade House
Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…
— Jennifer Elisabeth
There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. It will be some distant, buried feeling. I won't remember how much it once hurt.
— Nina LaCour, Everything Leads to You
I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, "Never give up hope, spring will come.
— Jessica Stern, Denial: A Memoir of Terror
I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Many were the steps taken in doubt, that saw their shapeless ends in no time. Those who travail in faith today will truimph in joy tomorrow. Let faith lead the way.
— Israelmore Ayivor
...William Stegner...coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation served elites with the assertion that wilderness could be a place in which everyone could locate their hopefulness even if few actually entered it. 
— Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
— Helen Keller, Optimism
He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,-- that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Maybe what River had meant was that time itself was like a river, moving steadily forward, and you got to be in a new river every day, every hour. All my life I'd felt like a lake. A lake where everyhting was contained, forever. All my experiences, all the different people I'd been, everything I'd had, everything I'd lost...I carried them around with me, all the time
— Cate Tiernan, Immortal Beloved
Move on, sky is not limit, wind can touch you, water can dip you, mother will care you, wife will nurture you and above all, oneday you will see your child following, up above the sky; you became a star, twinkling, watching and waiting to come back again, on earth.
— Santosh Kalwar
My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.
— Taylor Swift
Accept that what you see is what you'll get. Once your relationship becomes firmly established, your partner's personality and the way in which [he or] she treats you will most likely be what your future together will look like. Staying with a partner whom you hope will change usually results in disappointment.
— Mary C. Lamia, The White Knight Syndrome: Rescuing Yourself from Your Need to Rescue Others
And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.
— Samuel Beckett, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
We must always remember that it is the things of the spirit that in the end prevail. That caring counts. That where there is no vision, people perish. That hope and faith count, and that without charity there can be nothing good. That by daring to live dangerously, we are learning to live generously. And that by believing in the inherent goodness of man, we may ... 'stride forward into the unknown with growing confidence.
— John Gilbert Winant
If we want a better world, we must never cease to think about what kind of world we want... and we must not be afraid to do whatever it takes to make the world the way it should be. It is not enough just to talk. We must act!
— Kate Forsyth, The Beast's Garden
The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!
— Charles R. Swindoll
The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope’s finest expression. In hope’s loss, however, is the greatest despair.
— Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.
— Suzanne Collins, Gregor the Overlander
It is stupid to hope, but sometimes hope is all you have.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.
— Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur
Even amongst fierce flames/ The golden lotus can be planted.
— Bhagavid-Gita
It doesn't matter where you've been, only where you are going.
— L.M. Fields
What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.
— Dean Koontz, Velocity
Every goal first started as something in our mind. You have it all within you!
— Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!
His will be done, as done it surely will be, whether we humble ourselves to resignation or not. The impulse of creation forwards it; the strength of powers, seen and unseen, has its fulfillment in charge. Proof of a life to come must be given. In fire and in blood, if needful, must that proof be written. In fire and in blood do we trace the record throughout nature. In fire and in blood does it cross our own experience. Sufferer, faint not through terror of this burning evidence. Tired wayfarer, gird up thy loins, look upward, march onward. Pilgrims and brother mourners, join in friendly company. Dark through the wilderness of this world stretches the way for most of us: equal and steady be our tread; be our cross our banner. For staff we have His promis, whose 'word is tried, whose way perfect": for present hope His providence, 'who gives the shield of salvation, whose gentleness makes great'; for final home His bosom, who 'dwells in the height of Heaven'; for crowning prize a glory exceeding and eternal. Let us so run that we may obtain: let us endure hardness as good soldiers; let us finish our course, and keep the faith, reliant in the issue to come off more than conquerors: 'Art though not from everlasting mine Holy One? WE SHALL NOT DIE!
— Charlotte Brontë
It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.
— J.E.B. Spredemann, An Unforgivable Secret
To get where you want to be, you must first know where you are.
— Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!
Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.
— William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
The child was slender as fleeting hope.
— William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
As long as they could still be moved by a minor chord, or brought to a crisis of tears by scenes of lovers reunited; as long as there was room in their cautious hearts for games of chance, and laughter in the face of God, that must surely be enough to save them, at the last. If not, there was no hope for any living thing.
— Clive Barker, Weaveworld
There have been bleak nights along my way, many of my own making, but life is all the brighter for them now. To the human eye, without the darkness there are no stars.
— Sumangali Morhall, Auspicious Good Fortune: One woman's inspirational journey from Western disillusionment to Eastern spiritual fulfilment
Give up isn't going to helpKeep going on will help
— Kristopher Raines
You may find that knowledge is not so great a thing as belief or hope.
— Mark Rude, The Gold Cat’s Daughter
No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, don't ever, ever, ever lose hope!
— Jim Yackel, The Wayfarers | Walking Dreams
The need in me beautiful is to look back on you forever!!
— Abhijeet Sawant
Hope-that unshakable golden belief that things can get better- is why I'm here talking to you now. Without it, we are nothing.
— Alexander Gordon Smith
Rafe made people find something in themselves...(he) made me dream, he saw what I could hope to be, and helped me hope it. He did that to everyone he knew - especially the ones he knew the best." - Danny
— Randall Wallace, Pearl Harbor
Try to see the good in all things...
— M. Howson
Life is not kind. Who are you trying to kid, Kendall?” He sighed.
— Holly Hood, Heart of Gypsies
While there is tea, there is hope.")
— Arthur Wing Pinero
We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.
— Martin Buber
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
— Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will
When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.
— Andy Andrews
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
— John F. Kennedy
Farming is a profession of hope
— Brian Brett
To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
— Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go
My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition--broken mirrors and so forth--hope's not based on any kind of logic, it's just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control.
— Benjamin Wood, The Bellwether Revivals
There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.
— Rachel Simon, The Story of Beautiful Girl
The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but resistance to war, not only injustice but rebellion against injustice, not only selfishness but self-sacrifice, not only silence in the fact of tyranny but defiance, not only callousness but compassion.Human beings show a broad spectrum of qualities, but it is the worst of these that are usually emphasized, and the result, too often, is to dishearten us, diminish our spirit. And yet, historically, that spirit refuses to surrender.
— Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away.
— Vannetta Chapman, A Perfect Square
Healing Follows Forgiveness
— Pat Bluth
One factor that makes human being reluctant to have hope is the fear of disappointment.Do not be afraid of disappointment! The more you afraid of it, the smaller your expectation.Face and overcome the disappointment, even though it felt bitter in soul and pain in body.If you go through and pass it, then your soul and body will be stronger than previous level.When hope emerged, change will occur because of that, both in your soul and in your body.Fear of disapointment is a main enemy of good hope and great change within the human being.Only by facing and overcoming the fear of disapointment, man will become stronger and wiser. ~Salah satu faktor yang membuat manusia enggan untuk berharap adalah rasa takut akan kecewa.Jangan takut dengan kekecewaan! Semakin engkau takut menghadapinya, semakin kecil pengharapanmu.Hadapi dan lawanlah rasa kecewa, meskipun terasa pahit di jiwa dan terasa sakit di tubuh.Jika engkau mampu dan lulus, maka jiwa dan tubuhmu akan lebih kuat dari kondisi sebelumnya.Ketika harapan muncul, perubahan akan terjadi, baik dalam jiwa maupun dalam tubuh manusia.Rasa takut akan kecewa adalah musuh utama pengharapan yang baik dan perubahan yang agung dalam diri manusia.Hanya dengan menghadapi dan melalui rasa takut akan kecewa, seseorang dapat menjadi lebih kuat dan bijaksana.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.
— Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.
— Scot McKnight, One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow
The strong lines of the woman's face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?
— Brandon Sanderson, Elantris
Darling it may be a long time before we see one another again. But I want you to know. Every time I’ve said I love you- I meant it. There’s no two ways about it. The crew was talking about what’s ahead of us, but we all agreed on one thing. We’re coming back.
— Kara Martinelli, My Very Dearest Anna
There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.
— Adam Smith, Correspondence
Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.
— Michel O'Brien
What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.
— David Nicholls, One Day
In closing, I hope everything helps show that I wouldn’t be a fade-out or a person who turns to think to drink or dope when things get tough. I believe that anything is possible if you have the combination of love for what you’re doing and the will to sit down and not get up until it’s done….
— Kaye Gibbons, The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster
You can curse the moonCurse the day your’re bornBut the pilot of your plane is youWe’re all in this world, by a greater plan Look up, lift your wings, Because you canThe Light Said (The First Song album)
— Phyllis Wheaton
If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.
— Michael Sims, Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.
— Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life.
— Charlotte Brontë, Villette
If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
— Joseph Addison, The Spectator
Dear refuge of my weary soul,On thee, when sorrows rise,On thee, when waves of trouble roll,My fainting hope relies.
— Anne Steele
Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there?Should he not seek his own country?His miseries are his ally; they urge him on. Let them grow, if need be. But do not forsake the secret of life; do not despise those kingly desires. We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.
— John Eldredge, The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We Always Dreamed of
It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this."I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself."Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.""The board-schools.""Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
(Ezekial saw the wheel(Way up in the middle of the air --(O Ezekial saw the wheel(Way in the middle of the air!(Now the big wheel runs by faith(And the little wheel runs by the grace of God --(The above made up by professional hope experts, you might say, because willful, voluntary, intentional hope was the only kind they had in anything like long supply. Faith is not, contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet; it's an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of Time and right into Eternity, which is not the end of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, that old Eternal Now. So that you end up living not in the future ((in your intentional "act of faith")) but in the present. After all. hope.)
— Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God
Please don't take my wings...
— Randall Wallace, Pearl Harbor
when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope
— Laurell K. Hamilton
The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair.
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, The Art of Scientific Investigation
Don't you feel as though you could love everything starting tomorrow, and everything could love you, if only you took an action to set into motion the coming of our new tomorrow and its tomorrow and that one's tomorrow? Shotgun loaded hand on the pump and no matter who you damage you're still a false prophet, but we drink chocolate milk and then we get muscles and smash down the droves with fists like hammers and then we pump the fists in the air for victory. I be the prophet of the doom that is you. You are the mess in messiah.
— Adam Levin, The Instructions
We can ast for comfort and hope and patience and courage . . . and we’ll git what we ast for. They ain’t no gar’ntee thet we ain’t go’n have no troubles and ain’t go’n die. But shore as frogs croak and cows bellow, God’ll forgive us if’n we ast Him to.
— Olive Ann Burns
Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.
— Whittaker Chambers, Witness
Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin'.
— Howard Frank Mosher, Walking to Gatlinburg
You think you're paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you're paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college.
— Kelly Braffet
In life there are good and bad situations. But when you are down in the valley looking up at the mountain, sometimes you realize that you can see the stars a little clearer. You realize what's truly important and you know exactly what must be done to keep it just like it is.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.
— Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures
But, oh, when gloomy doubts prevail,I fear to call thee mine;The springs of comfort seem to fail,And all my hopes decline.Yet, gracious God, where shall I flee?Thou art my only trust;And still my soul would cleave to thee,Though prostrate in the dust.
— Anne Steele
We hope that we will live only because we must be with God, as alive as He is.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Don’t hope you will receive help from the words of life because they all bring you to death.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Impending doom, it was a familiar sweater, we all wore it and as scratchy as it felt against our skin, we kept it on.
— Holly Hood, Prison of Paradise
People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ( "Le ciel c'est l'autre" )
— Erik Pevernagie
Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.
— Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.
— Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
Embrace every new day with gratitude, hope and love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.
— Margaret George, Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles
I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful lives, a yearning for values we can commonly embrace. I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
— Bill Moyes
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast.
— William Wordsworth
If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same.
— Stacy Hawkins Adams, Dreams That Won't Let Go
He can't have gone, he said "Christ know he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it." The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
But if you ask me what I remember (about 1945), I will say it was the year Franklin D. Roosevelt died and I got one of his flowers. I will tell you that yellow rose give me the courage to do the right thing even if it was hard. I will say it was the time in my life when I learned all of us is fragile as a mimosa blossom. But the miracle of all is, When push comes to shove, we can be just as tough as Hickory. It mostly hurts at first. After a while it starts to feel better.
— Joyce Moyer Hostetter, Blue
I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.
— Jerome Groopman
... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.
— Jerome Groopman, The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
hope had become despair, protestors had become terrorists, love had become sex, music had become noise, and us had become me.
— Susan R. Sloan, Guilt by Association
Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Do you have any idea how frightening it is to care for someone who dreams? They infect you with their optimism. And soon you start to dream together. You begin to dare to hope.
— Lee  Winter, The Red Files
Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.
— Simon Soloveychik
You only feel powerless because your fear has given your power to the object of your fear. Once you realise this, you can claim it back.
— Kamand Kojouri
Through Christ, the sting of death is but a gentle pinch to the soul; and the mourn is light. Perhaps, someday, in that glorious place, free of sin, we shall meet again.
— Criss Jami
I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.
— Jennifer DeLucy
But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment.
— Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey