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Hope Quotes


"In time things thought impossible can be achieved."


". . .where there is no more hope, song remains."


"There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled."


"When the sun sets do not despair, hope sits with you in the dark."


"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."


"Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home."


"Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she would gaze out over the solitude of her life with desperate eyes, seeking some white sail in the mists of the far-off horizon. She did not know what this chance event would be, what wind would drive it to her, what shore it would carry her to, whether it was a longboat or a three-decked vessel, loaded with anguish or filled with happiness up to the portholes. But each morning, when she awoke, she hoped it would arrive that day, and she would listen to every sound, spring to her feet, feel surprised that it had not come; then at sunset, always more sorrowful, she would wish the next day were already there."


"Be optimistic about your dreams."



"As long as I can find hope in myself, there is hope for the future of the earth and the human race. If I fail to discover hope in myself, there is no hope for the earth or the human race. If I discover the goodness of human nature in myself, I can find it in the entire human race. If I fail to discover it in myself, I can't expect it from anyone else, either."


"There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. "My name is Augustus Waters, he said. "I'm seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I'm just here today at Isaac's request."And how are you feeling? asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand. Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."


"Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe."


"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."


"If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it."


"Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else knew about it was beside the purpose. He took his staff in one hand and the phial in his other. When he saw that the clear light was already welling through his fingers, he thrust it into his bosom and held it against his heart. Then turning from the city of Morgul, now no more than a grey glimmer across a dark gulf, he prepared to take the upward road."


"Dear Meg," I said. "I can't be sure about Lityerses. But I think we must try. We only fail when we stop trying."


"Turn your adversity into building blocks for the palace of your dreams."


"It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there."


"The darkest storms color the brightest rainbows."


"It's too late,' she says.And I say 'It's never too late."


"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."


"A seed today is a forest tomorrow."


"Stay strong; disappointments will not stay for that long. Wipe away your tears; be ready to receive cheers from people all over the world, beginning from you!"


"The world would have no rainbows if the sky had not storms."


"In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it people that never stop caring. They learned long ago that extending mercy was not a choice, but a place where God lives."


"Tomorrow always comes with a new hope for a new beginning. After all, it is a new day!"


"One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."



"I don't think anybody ever really knows what's going to happen," he said. "We're all just out here hoping for the best."


"Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light."
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