Quotes about Hope

So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord.

You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always a chance you'll want to use it later.

Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.

I'll never get over my grappling for balance, never stop believing life is going to be fair , the minute we can clear up all these mistakes of the temporarily misguided.

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. What I want is almost so simple I can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed.

I don't know how you go on, but I really hope you'll keep doing it. That you won't give up esperanza. I thought of that last night. Esperanza is all you get, no second chances. What you have to do is try and think of reasons to stick it out.

After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. —WALLACE STEVENS, "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.

I'm saying when God slams a door on you it's probably a shitstorm. You're going to end up in rubble. But it's okay because without all that crap overhead, you're standing in the daylight.

Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future?

There is nothing boring about the prospect of extinction.

All those hopes placed in such a precarious vessel.