Hope Quotes - Page 141

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Jane Austen

Hope means you keep on holding to things that won't ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left.

Seanan McGuire

Beware how you take away hope from another human being

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.

Richelle Mead

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

Janet Fitch

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Judy Collins

You can break a man with hope.

Kate Morgenroth

With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.

Robert M. Drake

Now I'm making a decision. I choose life. I shall live because there are few people I want to stay with for the longest possible time and because I have duties to discharge. It is not my concern whether or not life has meaning. If I am unable to forgive, then I shall try to forget. I shall live by force and cunning."

tayeb saleh

I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.

Sharon Kay Penman

She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.

Robert M. Drake

Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'- All my old loves will be returned to me

Carolyn Turgeon

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Rebecca West

I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r

John Green

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

Joyce Carol Oates

We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words.

Anita Krishan

A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.

Anosh Irani

People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. choices.When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!

Vera Nazarian

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...

Virgil

hope for the best, prepare for the worst

Chris Bradford

Hope attracts chances.

Toba Beta

I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl and my angels branch and soar. I've died within myself and lived a thousand different lives. I too fight the same war and I too am drowning in the puddles of self-consciousness this world created.

Robert M. Drake

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Chris Bradford

If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up

Suzanne Collins

Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

John Johnson

His face was tense, his jaw flexed as he stared at her. She could hardly stand to meet his eyes. They were an ocean of betrayal. They probed her, searching for the smallest sign that she didn't mean it. That spark of hope that never seemed to go out.

Aprilynne Pike

At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath of your touch stained my desire. Yea, it was one of those nights where I needed you the most.

Robert M. Drake

False hope is a terrible thing, if its the only thing keeping you alive you'll be dead by dawn.

Charlie Rae

I don't buy idea of second chance.With hope we make a lot of chances.

Toba Beta

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Jonas Salk

Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.

Sarah Addison Allen

We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics...they will only grow louder and more dissonant ........... We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Barack Obama

Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going.

Jodi Picoult

I’ve learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in

Bernard Kelvin Clive

He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking...

Lloyd Alexander

Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?

Alfred de Vigny

Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are fluttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your packAnd leave your friends and go.O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread,Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you treadThere’s nothing but the night.

A.E. Housman

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Richard Ford

You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.

Shiro Amano

Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.

Robert M. Drake

Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness.

Landon Parham

I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.

Sara Zarr

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.

Muriel Barbery

The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.

Robert Ludlum

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power.

Bob Sorge

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.

Jerome Groopman

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Behind us, the man laughed. "Looks like we aren't the only ones looking for a little diversion. There's an empty office right over there, guys." Marsten raised his hand in thanks. The couple moved on. I let the kiss continue for five more seconds, then pulled away. "They're gone," I said. Marsten frowned, as if surprised-and disappointed-that I'd noticed. I tugged my hair from his hands. "Okay, coast clear," I said. "Let's go." He let out a small laugh. "I see I need to brush up on my kissing." "No, you have that down pat." "She says with all the excitement of a teacher grading a math quiz..." "A-plus. Now let's move. Before someone else comes along.

Kelley Armstrong

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Hope is sweet.Hope is illumining.Hope is fulfilling.Hope can be everlasting.Therefore, do not give up hope,Even in the sunset of your life.

Sri Chinmoy

Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it's worth it if only once she gets a happy ending.

Cora Carmack

I'm beginning to think that to hope isn't the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos.

Goenawan Mohamad

And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.

Eleanor Cameron

You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.

Leymah Gbowee

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.

Thomas Love Peacock

Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.

Vincent van Gogh

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

George Eliot

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

William Shakespeare

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

Juliet Marillier

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