Quotes Tagged "hope"

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

Denial. It’s the only thing that keeps most of us from losing our sanity.

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

Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way

No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

hope could betray you—but if you had no hope, life could actually surprise you in the best of ways.

He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed.

But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

Never Give up! Where theres life theres hope!...

I guess this is a message for those of you who contemplate permanent solutions to temporary problems. You never know what could be coming in the future. There is so much music you've yet to hear.

جرب جرب و لا تخف , فالذين صنعوا سفينة نوح كانوا من الهواة أما المحترفون فهم الذين صنعوا تيتانك !

Above all shadows rides the Sun and Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr.Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two.

IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.