Quotes by American Authors - Page 3186

She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand.
Ann Brashares
One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we die; and hope, which says the first disease is not terminal. Hope is built into the structure of our personalities, into the depths of our unconscious; it plagues us to the very moment of our death. The critical question is whether hope is self-deception, the ultimate cruelty of a cruel and tricky universe, or whether it is just possibly the imprint of reality.
Brennan Manning
He lifted himself out of the darkness of his fears, into a bright new world of possibility.
Scott Stabile
Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. It involves being hopeful and motivated and keeping eyes on the prize ahead. Saying that everything is fine or that it will never get any better are ways of going nowhere or of making it impossible to go anywhere. Either approach implies that there is no road out or that, if there is, you don’t need to or can’t go down it. You can. We have.
Rebecca Solnit
Impossibility, like wineExhilarates the manWho tastes it; PossibilityIs flavoreless.
Emily Dickinson
I know nothing about war. But let me tell you what I believe. I think running from responsibility breeds self-loathing and despair. I think people can, and do, rise to the occasion, and even a single person can make an incredible difference. What they need are leaders who believe in them, a belief that gives birth to hope. With hope, people can do remarkable things, amazing things.
Michael J. Sullivan
Somewhere inside that hurting body, there is something better, something stronger, something real.
r.m drake
Anger gets me going.Hope sustains me.
Scott Stabile
A single prayer can alter your destiny if you have enough faith to believe. If this can be true, pray daily prayers for that someone, too.
Machel Shull
I look around and see so much fear, people getting more and more comfortable with their hate, more at ease being mean, more united in their separation. And I think, NO. Not me. I will not get lost in this fearful world. I will not play with bullies. I will continue to be brave and kind. I will speak for real unity. And no matter what, I will never stop loving.
Scott Stabile
The darkest things of this world nestle inseparable from, and do not eclipse, its equally boundless graces and glories.
Brian Awehali
Until then, never lose hope. Never stop loving me. Never forget.
 Never Never
Colleen Hoover
We all make mistakes, the danger lies in letting those mistakes make us. Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up.
Jennifer Donnelly
Where God guides, He provides. No matter how things look, God is still in control. Stay in peace and be hopeful. Your blessing is coming soon.
Germany Kent
When we admit and deal with difference; when we deal with the deep bitterness; when we deal with the horror of even our different nightmares; when we turn them and look at them, it’s like looking at death: hard but possible. If you look at it directly without embracing it, then there is much less that you can ever be made to fear.
Audre Lorde
We all get in a funk sometimes.It doesn't mean you're failing, or ungrateful, or stupid, or lost. It means you're human.The Funk happens. For all of us. We can’t be happy all the time. We don’t need to be.
Scott Stabile
Don't let the lies that darken our world keep you from living within your truth.
Scott Stabile
The enemy fights the hardest when you are closest to your breakthrough. Know that your best days are ahead and no weapon formed will prosper.
Germany Kent
Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you'll look back on everything you've been through and thank God for it.
Germany Kent
The name outlaw Christian describes the kind of Christian I am and the kind I’m setting myself free to become: namely, a follower of Jesus who no longer accepts cocky clichés, hackneyed hope, or snappy theodicies—defenses of God’s goodness and power—that explain away evil and suffering with a theo-magical sleight of hand. An outlaw Christian doesn’t condemn questions or discourage doubt. Instead, an outlaw Christian seeks to live an authentic life of faith and integrity, and chooses the defy the unwritten laws governing suffering, grief, and hope that our culture and religious traditions have asked us to ingest. The faith of an outlaw Christian is bold, outspoken, and active in a world of pain.
Jacqueline A. Bussie
When you are 70% sure, act /because the other 30% is reserved for hope /which is doubt turned upside-down.
Dean Young
I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me nowis a beginning or an end.
Jack Gilbert
My job as a therapist is to help victims of trauma understand that they are not to blame. They are not responsible for the bad things that happened to them as children, nor are they responsible for the personal problems that developed as a result. What they are responsible for is fixing those problems. This can only be done by bravely facing the past, identifying the effects that the past has on the present, and working through all the painful emotional baggage.- Scared Selfless
Michelle Stevens
Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -And sore must be the storm -That could abash the little BirdThat kept so many warm -I’ve heard it in the chillest land -And on the strangest Sea -Yet - never - in Extremity,It asked a crumb - of me.
Emily Dickinson
Even more than a heart, hope was a necessary traveling companion.
Julianne Donaldson
The optimist's hope and the pessimist's despair: reciprocal illusions.
Marty Rubin
Sometimes, crazy is exactly what we need.
Dennis Canfield
What else is a child, but hope? Hope for the future, hope for one's own salvation, hope for a tomorrow that shines as bright and warm as the best yesterday you can remember.
Emily Littlejohn
Our inner fire is the spark of hope that drives us through even the darkest times. Do not be so quick to dismiss it.
Dave Roman
Hope is a delicate thing. A dangerous thing.
Ally Carter
Some people grow older and more cynical. Some people become just the opposite. Life hurts without hope, and cynicism, once a luxury, becomes unaffordable.
William Norwich
Wylan summoned every bit of bravado he'd learned from Nina, the will he'd learned from Matthias, the focus he'd studied in Kaz, the courage he'd learned from Inej, and the wild, reckless hope he'd learned from Jesper, the belief that no matter the odds, somehow they would win.
Leigh Bardugo
I will take you home, his lord had said. Home. He held to that word, as a man holds to a rope in a raging sea.
Elizabeth A. Lynn
Do you remember what you're supposed to do now? Kiss the palm of your hand and press it against your heart.
Paullina Simons
But the truth, I realize now, is that I always hoped. Even if I knew my hope was a lie, I held on to it.
Joshua David Bellin
I hear my mom pray every night about how she misses meI want nothing to happen to my little brother the way it happened to meI tell my mom, Keep your head up and stay strong, because I am getting good care in heavenI worry about nothing because Jesus has my backI cry and Jesus comes and wipes my tears from my faceI try to make it to the NBA in heavenI hope everyone is not worried about meI am Brandon in heaven, having fun.
Michelle Kuo
Happy ending aren't just for royalty. Happy ending are for all of us.
Emma Chase
Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.
Annie Dillard
Perhaps love and hope are one and the same.
Cameron Dokey
Beauty is one of the strangest things. It never comes without the pain. But it always comes...eventually.
Madilyn Vae
...heroes are sometimes the most ordinary -seeming people. It reminds us that as ordinary as we might be, we can, if we choose, take the harder road, walk forth bravely under the indifferent stars. We can hazard the ravages of chance. We can choose to endure what seems unendurable, and thereby open up the possibility of prevailing. We can awaken to the world as it is, and seeing it with eyes wide open, we can nevertheless embrace hope rather than despair.
Daniel James Brown
The sight of a palm tree silhouetted against the sky made even his life feel like a movie
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Maybe those stories did more harm than good by giving us false hope. All they did was reinforce our faith that the world was once made up almost entirely of magic or miracles. But where was that magic now, when we needed it?
Aditi Khorana
When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain.
Megan Devine
Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.
Megan Devine
Everything will work out... don't give up hope, remain calm.
Jonathan Franklin
True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward.
Megan Devine
Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal. It isn't.
Megan Devine
The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this world that you can't be cheered out of. You don't need solutions. You don't need to move on from your grief. You need someone to see your grief, to acknowledge it. You need someone to hold your hands while you stand there in blinking horror, staring at the hole that was your life. Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.
Megan Devine
What we all share in common - the real reason for this book - is a desire to love better. To love ourselves in the midst of great pain, and to love another when the pain of this life grows too large for one person to hold. This book offers the skills needed to make that kind of love a reality.
Megan Devine
Some things cannot be fixed; they can only be carried. Grief like yours, love like yours, can only be carried.Survival in grief, even eventually building a new life alongside grief, comes with the willingness to bear witness, both to yourself and to the others who find themselves inside this life they didn’t see coming. Together, we create real hope for ourselves,and for one another. We need each other to survive.I wish this for you: to find the people you belong with, the ones who will see your pain, companion you, hold you close,even as the heavy lifting of grief is yours alone. As hard as they may seem to find at times, your community is out there. Lookfor them. Collect them. Knit them into a vast flotilla of light that can hold you.
Megan Devine
Let's gather the world in a game of love with the goal of kicking our tears past Eternity & she'll kick the earth into humanity.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
It’s a picture of hope because the kid without his legs? The one burned and cut and deathly pale? He lived.And he’s going to be fine.
Jeff Bauman
Sometimes, however, there is more than hope.Sometimes there is reason.
Elizabeth Haydon
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
Barbara Kingsolver
But the Count hadn’t the temperament for revenge; he hadn’t the imagination for epics; and he certainly hadn’t the fanciful ego to dram of empires restored. No. His model for mastering his circumstances would be a different sort of captive altogether: an Anglican washed ashore. Like Robinson Crusoe stranded on the Isle of Despair, the count would maintain his resolve by committing to the business of practicalities. Having dispensed with dreams of quick discovery, the world’s Crusoes seek shelter and a source of fresh water; they teach themselves to make fire from flint; they study their island’s topography, it’s climate, its flora and fauna, all the while keeping their eyes trained for sails on the horizon and footprints in the sand.
Amor Towles
Hope-it was a fire that lit the soul, a belief in both the impossible and in everything imaginable, the budding anticipation of joy, waiting with each breath.
Kate Breslin
I sometimes wondered why I even answered the phone, but I guess I always had the hope that it would be someone else, some other way of life calling for me.
Catherine Lacey
Hope could not outlast the breather. Love, however . . . Love was something not even death could conquer, because at the end of everything, even life, he was hers.
Ryan Graudin
It's always darkest before dawn. We just have to wait a little while longer. The sun always rises.
Aly Martinez