Quotes about Hope

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.

Unsheltered, I live in daylight. And like the wandering bird I rest in thee.

I got up every day thinking the sun was out there shining, and it could just as well shine on me as any other human person.

Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy after a season of cold second thoughts.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what to hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

For six years, from age nineteen until I turned twenty-five, I did not sleep uninterrupted through a single night. . . . I felt lucky to get my shoes on the right feet. . . . I moved forward only, thinking each morning anew that we were leaving the worst behind.

Move on. Walk forward into the light.

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.