Hope Quotes - Page 8

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.

I don’t see how anyone can find happiness in this world.

One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.

I've learned through experience that faith moves mountains, hope moves choices, and, more importantly, that love moves you a step closer to God.

Life is learning to take God's hand.....and hold on.

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

Remember, you are never alone in this world. Never.

One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.

I really don't even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound.

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.

If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.

I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine...

Long distance is hard. You have to trust that as you each change on your own, your relationship will also change along with you. It takes hope, good humor, and idealism. It takes a massive dose of courage to protect the relationship at all odds. It is hard, but worth it. You'll both be stronger as a result.

People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them.