Hope Quotes - Page 21

Don’t waste your time dying over the past, spend it living in the present.

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.

Hope is the beautiful dream of the soul.

With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.

to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.

God is more than able to meet our every need.

Even a single thread of hope is still a very powerful thing. Grab onto it with both hands and never let it go.

I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now you can drown in the stink or turn it into compost and grow a garden. I wouldn't't be as good a teacher to you if I didn't know what you're going through. That way, I make my memories do good instead of letting them eat me. I'm like Herbie from Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. I pulled my Bumble's teeth. He's still big and scary but he can't bite me anymore.

Our infinitesimal hopes should survive longer than our vast disappointments

Positive life, positive deed.

I trust and rely on God.

Sometimes it feels like you and I are at the movie theater, sitting next to each other and watching the same movie. People say something, argue incessantly, even fight, but this is all somewhere far away, on the other side of the screen, and we are just passive onlookers unable to affect the course of events.

You ought to read, mediate and affirm the living word of God.

Those who complain never love, those who love, never complain.

Patience! It is not how quickly you run, but how slowly.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

The affliction in the flesh of soul is temporal compare to the eternal glory of the spirit.

Without love, life will be a great mistake.

Imagine, dream, act, discover and wonder. Everyday is a new day to love and wonder.

I can’t help but to dance!

Why couldn't two unhappy people refresh each other on their way through this dusty business of life by a little talk - real, natural talk, about what they felt, what they would have liked, what they still tried to hope for?

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

There is enough work for everyone. May you find your purpose and passionately live it.

Have you noticed that you feel better around some people than others? You smile more in their presence and afterward feel a little lighter, a bit more cheerful? I think of those people as “purveyors of hope.” They help me to know that beyond every mountain I face there is a path...even if I can't see it from the valley.

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.

...hope nourishes while loss empties a person out," he said.... "Lila, my love, my love,...lay down your weapons. Don't punish us because I told myself a different story than the one you told yourself.

To live a worthy life, just love.

Joyful gratitude creates a happy life.

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

Hope is my joy.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

It thanked her for the life she breathed into hits being; without her influence, this little being would not have been in the Garden of Glory.

You find love, not by looking, but by giving away.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

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.

I could have loved him with everything I had but he wasn't prepared for the depth i provided ~ had I been a woman of weakness I would have stayed, but he lost the chance when he said I wasn't enough that day.

I often wondered after David’s death: Had they known something then? Did their very souls recognize each other? Did Jacob, closer to God than anyone else I knew, somehow sense this was the last time he would see his grandpa? Hadthere been a message to the little boy in David’s long-held gaze? Did these two people—the six-year-old boy and the sixty-year-old man— realize something the rest of us didn’t?

Prayer is not only for answers but a spiritual act.

I don’t know anything different about death than I ever have, but I feel differently. I inhabit this difference in feeling- or does it live in me?- at the same time as I’m sorrowing. The possibility of consolation, of joy even, does not dispel the sorrow. Sorrow is the cathedral, the immense architecture; in its interior there’s room for almost everything; for desire, for flashes of happiness, for making plans for the future…

After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.

God never said that the journey will be easy, but he did said that the arrival will be worthwhile

When I count my blessings, it is immeasurable

The miracles of life; believe, faith and hope.

Nearly all God's jewels are crystallized tears.

Time and again the sun sets like a bedimming curtain before my eyes, taking with it all illumination, warmth, and color.  I am overwhelmed by night and the monsters that lurk in shadows of despair.  But alas, stars twinkle from afar, shedding the tiniest rays of lighted hope.  I am reminded that the sun also rises and that morning's glory shall restore beauty to my world.  The realization of this dream is only a matter of waiting out the dreary night.  So, I shall persevere.

You are alone. But you seems not afraid- though you weary with your groaning; wandering far off in the wilderness and your eyes, consumed because of your grief; waxed old while you're still young.

When you love someone, be sure that you will be loved in return.

Don't try to find a reason to be kind, just be kind, compassionate, and make a difference.

Like a flower, the magical softness of your voice touched my heart.

Be brave enough to listen to your heart, be bold enough to hope for the best.

It was in the horizon of existence, that the Big Bang must have created our souls, we loved each other like the plane of time doesn't hold a fleck of control over us.

As concerning the things whereof thou asked me, I will tell thee; for the evil is sown, but the destruction thereof is not yet come.

Surround yourself with what matters.

To expand our life, be loving and kind.

Persistence is the pillar of success.

Solitude – the space between thinking” from Cinderella In Focus.

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.

The only way to find happiness is to make someone happy.