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82eb86c "I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him." hope C.S. Lewis
021a1e1 "If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness." fear hope Paulo Coelho
4712232 To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. hope James Hillman
6ff57f8 We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light. science hope inspirational truth-of-life Albert Pike
6fd183f To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see. god hope pleasing-to-god Anonymous
eb731d2 The world isn't perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn't apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway. moving-on depression hope life Chloe Neill
02eb91e When you get ill do not get nervous about it and try as much as possible to be hopeful. hope inspirational Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
6591da8 There is hope in forgiveness hope John Piper
a511505 Carry the fire. emotion hope prophecy Cormac McCarthy
2a8748e "[Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope." hope rainbows iris the-son-of-neptune heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson-and-the-olympians Rick Riordan
be4252d "Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe." hope life durbyfield tess-of-the-d-urbervilles thomas-hardy Thomas Hardy
871deb0 "You didn't think I really liked you? Do you think I really like you now?" He turned toward her, uncertainty in his face."You did go quite a lot of effort to be having this conversation, but... I don't want to read too much of what I hope into that." Val stretched out beside him, resting her head in the crook of his arm. "What do you hope?" He pulled her close, hands careful not to touch her wounds as they wrapped around her. "I hope that you feel for me as I do for you," he said, his voice like a sigh against her throat. And how is that?" she asked, her lips so close to his jaw that she could taste the salt of his skin when she moved them. You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that." She smiled and let her eyes drift closed. They lay there together, under the bridge, city lights burning outside the windows like a sky full of falling stars, as they slid off into sleep" hope love Holly Black
670c7e3 But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope. individuality hope non-conformity resolves declaration-of-independence self-assurance conformity Howard Zinn
55bebbf Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. hope despair Graham Greene
310b7ef The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps. future dreams hope Carl Sagan
ba08883 A great ring of pure & endless light Dazzles the darkness in my heart And breaks apart the dusky clouds of night. The end of all is hinted in the start. When we are born we bear the seeds of blight; Around us life & death are torn apart, Yet a great ring of pure and endless light Dazzles the darkness in my heart. It lights the world to my delight. Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark & dart. A grain of sand holds power & might. Infinity is present in each part, And a great ring of pure and endless light Dazzles the darkness in my heart. light joy darkness god hope dazzlement madeleine-l-engle eternal eternity Madeleine L'Engle
018ddbb I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching. hope Nicholas Sparks
0bb92fb The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love. education happiness heart hope intelligence life love moon philosophy truth twinkle wisdom inspirational reflection knowledge moonlight Debasish Mridha
ec36f60 And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched. hope Juliet Marillier
48f972a And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish. stars hope inspirational sarah-j-maas acomaf stargazing wish wishes night Sarah J. Maas
54ba849 "Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels." hope weasels iris the-son-of-neptune heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson-and-the-olympians Rick Riordan
71432da My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. stars heaven inspiration hope H.G. Wells
ceb65ab In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and pernicious consequences of our maldistribution of wealth and power. We simply cannot enter the twenty-first century at each other's throats, even as we acknowledge the weighty forces of racism, patriarchy, economic inequality, homophobia, and ecological abuse on our necks. We are at a crucial crossroad in the history of this nation--and we either hang together by combating these forces that divide and degrade us or we hang separately. Do we have the intelligence, humor, imagination, courage, tolerance, love, respect, and will to meet the challenge? Time will tell. None of us alone can save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. courage future change hope inequalities race justice Cornel West
02f767b My belief is that if we live another century or so -- I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals -- and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the common sitting-room and see human beings not always in their relation to each other but in relation to reality; and the sky, too, and the trees or whatever it may be in themselves; if we look past Milton's bogey, for no human being should shut out the view; if we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women, then the opportunity will come and the dead poet who was Shakespeare's sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down. hope shakespeare-s-sister virginia-woolf Virginia Woolf
9da7d72 That tastes like hope feels. hope taste John Green
21ef9dd In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none. hope love peace Victor Hugo
e655fa2 You are only a prisoner when you surrender. hope prisoner surrender Tad Williams
0471d49 Twelve minutes. I can give you that. faith friendship hope titan bob Rick Riordan
467f3b4 I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey. fear hope love the-bell-jar sylvia-plath Sylvia Plath
31b9c0c It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone. relationships hope love Dennis Lehane
f8e6aa5 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. humanity hope language Elie Wiesel
2745915 And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest. humanity inspiration hope despair Cressida Cowell
3813924 We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. I do, Augustus. I do. hope love philosophy heartbreaking the-fault-in-our-stars sad John Green
b93513f Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. hope hobbit sam J.R.R. Tolkien
e0519db The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. future hope the-present now victory Howard Zinn
020d5a1 One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive? hope Margaret Atwood
3fc371f Despair is a free man--hope is a slave. hope L.M. Montgomery
bf5f54f Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason of how or why they were taken away from you, but a reason to live. Because it's a maybe. A 'maybe someday things won't always be this shit. And that 'maybe' immediately makes the shittiness better. hope Cecelia Ahern
eb14ac5 Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. humanity hope hope-and-despair Henryk Sienkiewicz
8e94385 "I would like [my readers] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read [my] stories. I'd like them to feel that this was an experience that made things better for them and an experience that gave them hope. I think that the kind of things that we talk about at this conference -- fantasy very much so, science fiction, and even horror -- the message that we're sending is the reverse of the message sent by what is called "realistic fiction." (I happen to think that realistic fiction is not, in fact, realistic, but that's a side issue.) And what we are saying is that it doesn't have to be like this: things can be different. Our society can be changed. Maybe it's worse, maybe it's better. Maybe it's a higher civilization, maybe it's a barbaric civilization. But it doesn't have to be the way it is now. Things can change. And we're also saying things can change for you in your life. Look at the difference between Severian the apprentice and Severian the Autarch [in for example. The difference beteween Silk as an augur and Silk as calde [in fiction fantasy optimism hope science-fiction horror Gene Wolfe
48df226 Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy. war stars faith inspiration spirituality hope marvelousmonday-quotes national-novel-writing-month quotes-by-famous-authors quotes-by-famous-poets the-soul world-suicide-prevention-day classic-quotes peacism nanowrimo silver grace terrorism mercy souls peace ignorance survival Aberjhani
52d0b93 " Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No: I may not tell the best; Surely, friends, I might have guessed laughter hope skeleton G.K. Chesterton
dc261f5 Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong...But it might. fear hope Terry Pratchett
21fbcb8 I'll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine. hope Sharon Kay Penman
7df3fb8 This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. violence tragedy pain war grief faith fear hope love anguish casualties-of-war child-victims-of-war children-killed-in-war gun-laws peacemaking russia-and-ukraine-conflict spiritual-love gun-violence world-suicide-prevention-day syrian-civil-war unconditional-love agape-love conflict-resolution nonviolent-conflict-resolution police-reform police-shootings peace-movement peace Aberjhani
98c97c2 The job facing American voters... in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear. courage politics fear hope famous-quotes choosing civic-duty democratic-national-convention gun-violence making-choices mitt-romney political-awareness political-responsibility presidential-election presidential-election-campaign republican-national-convention savannah-author-aberjhani social-responsibility vision-of-america quotes-by-aberjhani political-advocacy options the-future social-awareness legacies barack-obama police-reform police-shootings voting xenophobia political-philosophy patriotism Aberjhani
48c2d82 "A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart." struggle true strength heartbreak hope hope-for-the-hopeless hopefulness keep-the-faith struggling george-r-r-martin warriors hardship strength-through-adversity knights searching dead George R.R. Martin
d8f9714 What hell condemned, let heaven now heal. heaven faith inspiration inspirational-quotes spirituality hope positive-motivation healing recovery hell Aberjhani
150c93d In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves. gratitude television inspiration motivation spirituality empowerment hope blog-quotes positive-motivation famous-poets oprah-winfrey quotes-by-aberjhani rare-personalities world-suicide-prevention-day celebrities coaching philanthropy famous-authors personal-growth grace Aberjhani
49d0b3c No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain. pain hope Ruth Ozeki
452bfd3 Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon. hope good-deeds nobility-of-spirit gluttony mercy values sin Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6703c6f Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom's sharp peaks. faith inspirational-quotes dreams hope wisdom poem-in-your-pocket-day positive-motivation vision-dream metaphysical famous-quotes-from-classic-books haikus healing visions haiku Aberjhani
66f44ab Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it. hope Ian Fleming
9fad88d I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. [...] I do not believe that darkness will endure! hope J.R.R. Tolkien
57f8d7e Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrodinger's cat inside a box you can never ever open. pain loss hope uncertainty David Mitchell
afd3b47 Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross. immortality hope england king-arthur matter-of-britain resurrection Thomas Malory
d03bb8f "God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning. Surely, while we live we are not lost. war fiction death hope last-lines the-long-green-shore wwii John Hepworth
7a47d33 Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often, and find your life in Christ. Don't hide away or be a follower. Be the wonderful unique person God made you to be, and know that your purpose will always be best when defined by your faith in him faith hope love truth inspirational Karen Kingsbury
88d1c6f I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Every hope of the future is meaningless unless I have faith that you and I will share it together. future hope love letter together Elizabeth George Speare
b6d7a85 For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted. hope love inspirational Sherrilyn Kenyon
f4eeb39 I convinced myself that everything was going to be okay. This is what happens when you believe in in hope. Karma comes around and destroy it. karma hope Katie McGarry
069b726 It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. goodness hope inspirational blessings sherlock-holmes flowers Arthur Conan Doyle
0f9301c "Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world." Winston Churchill Christmas Eve Message, 1941 as printed in "In the Dark Streets Shineth." hope christmas David McCullough
e0d1cb1 Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. prejudice racism hope ignorance Martin Luther King Jr.
5a338ae The way I see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. Hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up. spirit dreams hope hard-times Karen Hesse
86fe157 Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow. hope life love inspirational lesson Cecelia Ahern
76c1612 That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell. hope paganism Seamus Heaney
da4edeb Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven't let her take away my will to somehow survive. hope survival Dave Pelzer
bd6d892 "He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking..." hope Lloyd Alexander
e484d22 This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold. grief sorrow compassion faith inspiration inspirational-quotes spirituality hope classic-quotes classic-poems healing-grief inspiration-for-the-soul newtown-connecticut palaces pearls-of-wisdom quotes-for-easter recovery-from-grief savannah-authors-and-poets spiritual-transformation infinity roses pearls rebirth resurrection survival transformation recovery Aberjhani
0a52acf Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer? imagination dreams hope growing-up leaving Betty Smith
5ef5959 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. hope civilization Louis L'Amour
4ee2041 ...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life. hope charlotte-bronte Charlotte Brontë
ea2e8da Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face. hope Marianne Williamson
fee470d Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength. courage humanity faith leadership spirituality dreams strength hope love agape-love american-history black-history-month compassion-heals-lives conflict-resolution famous-authors famous-speeches great-leaders human-rights-day i-have-a-dream-speech martin-luther-king-day martin-luther-king-jr mlk-day mlkdream50 national-history-day nonviolent-conflict-resolution police-reform police-shootings spiritual-visions voting-rights-act-of-1965 nonviolence civil-rights-movement Aberjhani
ef5b475 ...a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed... hope Sharon Kay Penman
2a99ee2 Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues -- faith and hope. hope love mother pride Charles Dickens
103bb0d Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain. reality hope Jodi Picoult
db3b234 How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? mind hate courage fear hope men-s-heart self-loathing fright mystery fight mental-illness torture Joseph Conrad
1a4013e 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. ineffable wordless hope hymn blessing blindness mood description beautiful guilt Aimee Bender
07e5c30 Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope. hope possible Rebecca Solnit
02f20b2 Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life. sacrifice hope life service John Piper
c86d402 We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in all these records of the past, philosophies and dreams, and efforts stained with tears, of great and tender souls who tried to pierce the mystery of life and death, to answer the eternal questions of the Whence and Whither, and vainly sought to make, with bits of shattered glass, a mirror that would, in very truth, reflect the face and form of Nature's perfect self. These myths were born of hopes, and fears, and tears, and smiles, and they were touched and colored by all there is of joy and grief between the rosy dawn of birth, and death's sad night. They clothed even the stars with passion, and gave to gods the faults and frailties of the sons of men. In them, the winds and waves were music, and all the lakes, and streams, and springs,--the mountains, woods and perfumed dells were haunted by a thousand fairy forms. They thrilled the veins of Spring with tremulous desire; made tawny Summer's billowed breast the throne and home of love; filled Autumns arms with sun-kissed grapes, and gathered sheaves; and pictured Winter as a weak old king who felt, like Lear upon his withered face, Cordelia's tears. These myths, though false, are beautiful, and have for many ages and in countless ways, enriched the heart and kindled thought. But if the world were taught that all these things are true and all inspired of God, and that eternal punishment will be the lot of him who dares deny or doubt, the sweetest myth of all the Fable World would lose its beauty, and become a scorned and hateful thing to every brave and thoughtful man. winter perfection shakespeare true grief doubt passion nature joy fear past death dreams music hope life love truth hateful philosophies religion-myths scorn sacred-books brave tender fairy haunted pagan king-lear spring woods fable poetic mountains lake birth smiles deny eternity autumn punishment gods effort tears questions mystery beautiful throne summer thought delight william-shakespeare pleasure Robert G. Ingersoll
cbf2842 To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain. hope Ann-Marie MacDonald
9df04bb 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. heaven hope Tess Gerritsen
d471501 Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it. hope inspirational recovery Marian Keyes
5fb6888 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. heaven faith spirituality bible hope bible-verse salvation saved christian hell Anonymous
52416f1 It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague hope lives on, but no better than the inscriptions on tombstones. hope despair Franz Kafka
fc395b4 But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment. hope Anne Brontë
422f761 What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it? pain hope love Andre Dubus
e81b7b7 "Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were flying in formation when the control tower summoned them down. The more it rained, the worse they suffered. The worse they suffered, the more they prayed that it would continue raining. All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars. All through the day, they looked at the bomb line on the big, wobbling easel map of Italy that blew over in the wind and was dragged in under the awning of the intelligence tent every time the rain began. The bomb line was a scarlet band of narrow satin ribbon that delineated the forward most position of the Allied ground forces in every sector of the Italian mainland. For hours they stared relentlessly at the scarlet ribbon on the map and hated it because it would not move up high enough to encompass the city. When night fell, they congregated in the darkness with flashlights, continuing their macabre vigil at the bomb line in brooding entreaty as though hoping to move the ribbon up by the collective weight of their sullen prayers. "I really can't believe it," Clevinger exclaimed to Yossarian in a voice rising and falling in protest and wonder. "It's a complete reversion to primitive superstition. They're confusing cause and effect. It makes as much sense as knocking on wood or crossing your fingers. They really believe that we wouldn't have to fly that mission tomorrow if someone would only tiptoe up to the map in the middle of the night and move the bomb line over Bologna. Can you imagine? You and I must be the only rational ones left." In the middle of the night Yossarian knocked on wood, crossed his fingers, and tiptoed out of his tent to move the bomb line up over Bologna." war bologna yossarian catch-22 prayer funny inspiration humor hope rational meditation superstition Joseph Heller
7982b5a She would fill the world with it, with her light-her gift. She would light up the darkness, so brightly that all who were lost or wounded or broken would find their way to it, a beacon for those who still dwelled in that abyss. It would not take a monster to destroy a monster-but light, light to drive out the darkness. She was not afraid. light hope celaena-sardothien Sarah J. Maas
bdcf099 Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away. politics hope Rebecca Solnit
daff5e6 No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued. suicide woman hope love value Sheri Holman
662e323 With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible. courage hope inspirational conquer impossible fears Juliet Marillier
04d01f6 In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure... pain memories faith hope grace-and-favor grace creator artist memory creation Madeleine L'Engle
fbcf91f Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter. faith god hope miracles Paulo Coelho
8e70320 For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you're lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you're alive. lessons inspiration hope life wisdom patchett crossroads Ann Patchett
5ab42bf "Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Friends around me find success and level up, do fancy photo shoots and get featured on big, white, movie screens. There were parties and lovers, hand in hand, laughing perfectly loud, but I walked numbly through the park, round and round, 40 times for 4 hours just wanting to make it through the day. There's a weight that inhabits my chest some times. Like a lock in my throat, making it hard to breathe. A little less air got through and the sky was so blue I couldn't look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories, but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desk tick tick tick me not making a sound and some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind, but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine. This is not beautiful. This is not useful. You can not do anything with it and it tries to control you, throw you off your balance and lovely ways but you can not let it. I cleaned up. Took myself for a walk. Tried to keep my eyes on the sky. Stayed away from the alcohol, stayed away from the destructive tools we learn to use. the smoking and the starving, the running, the madness, thinking it will help but it only feeds the fire and I don't want to hurt myself anymore. I made it through and today I woke up, lighter and proud because I'm still here. There are flowers growing outside my window. The coffee is warm, the air is pure. In a few hours I'll be on a train on my way to sing for people who invited me to come, to sing, for them. My own songs, that I created. Me--little me. From nowhere at all. And I have people around that I like and can laugh with, and it's spring again. lovely madness lovers new-day gratitude drinking joy inspiration sadness music songs happiness hope be-okay fine panic-attacks park starving panic-attack chest sound ed okay self-destruction wellness grateful hopeful anxiety alcohol coffee spring well-being art singing hurt balance sky flowers crying focus panic sing tears walking hopeless recovery sad self-harm smoking mental-health Charlotte Eriksson
d143be1 The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but resistance to war, not only injustice but rebellion against injustice, not only selfishness but self-sacrifice, not only silence in the fact of tyranny but defiance, not only callousness but compassion. Human beings show a broad spectrum of qualities, but it is the worst of these that are usually emphasized, and the result, too often, is to dishearten us, diminish our spirit. And yet, historically, that spirit refuses to surrender. injustice history spirit hope optimisim Howard Zinn
c86c31b It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces. reality hope life aspirations disappointments bitterness alain de botton
4369074 We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering. hope perserverance Marcel Proust
ca4e706 "All's well that ends well.' 'Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said. Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminiscent of a smile. 'There has to be an end somewhere. It's just that nothing's labeled "This is the end." Is the top rung of a ladder labeled "This is the last rung. Please don't step higher than this'?" Aomame shook her head. 'It's the same thing,' Tamaru said. Aomame said, 'If you use common sense and keep your eyes open, it becomes clear enough where the end is.' Tamaru nodded. 'And even if it doesn't' -- he made a falling gesture with his finger -- 'the end is right there." hopelessness suicide hope eyes-wide-open keep-going-keep-your-eyes-open ladder common-sense endings end Haruki Murakami
eb6935e Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance. god hope Alexandre Dumas
67aca3e An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust. hopelessness hope Barbara W. Tuchman
e20edaf It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too. hope Sharon Kay Penman
c648ffd Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else knew about it was beside the purpose. He took his staff in one hand and the phial in his other. When he saw that the clear light was already welling through his fingers, he thrust it into his bosom and held it against his heart. Then turning from the city of Morgul, now no more than a grey glimmer across a dark gulf, he prepared to take the upward road. hope inspirational J.R.R. Tolkien
1b5e908 "The king was silent. "Ents!" he said at length. "Out of the shadows of legend I begin a little to understand the marvel of the trees, I think. I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of the strange places, and walk visible under the Sun." "You should be glad," Theoden King," said Gandalf. "For not only the little life of Men is now endangered, but the life also of those thing which you have deemed the matter of legend. You are not without allies, even if you know them not." "Yet also I should be sad," said Theoden. "For however the fortune of war shall go, may it not so end that much that was fair and wonderful shall pass for ever out of Middle-earth?" -- war inspiration imagination hope J.R.R. Tolkien
2f5489d But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends. hope l-m-montgomery prepare L.M. Montgomery
b4cf24b I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones. moving-on hope final-departure last-goodbye last-sight lost-friends picture-metaphor life-goes-on moving-on-and-letting-go getting-over-it leaving remembering Joseph Conrad
7ac32d5 In the meantime, I'll wish it upon a star.'- Michael Cooper hope love wish star Julie Ann Knudsen
47a305c "Your mother sets you up blind dates? With guys like that?" The corners of his mouth twitched. "She doesn't like you very much, does she?" hope mateson Kelley Armstrong
bf20af1 "My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle" destiny hope mother-s-love-for-son J.K. Rowling
9ab27f2 Death is more merciful than hope itself! There is nothing surprising in this, for death is divinely appointed, while hope is the creation of human folly. Both end in frustration. Am I destined to lead a life of endless frustration? -(The Beginning and the End) hope frustration Naguib Mahfouz
90b41dd The truth is that we don't want to be saved by in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion. It isn't like that with love - it arrives, moves in, and starts directing everything. hope love inspirational paulo-coelho unexpected Paulo Coelho
fff0a9b You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through. hope victory Robert Jordan
5659b0a For anything worth accomplishing, we can always find reasons to doubt, just as we can also find reasons to proceed...I have chosen to side with faith and hope over doubt and despair. doubt faith hope Brandon Mull
54d1f00 Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live. hope life inspirational Elizabeth Gilbert
75330de "Sorry Johnny." "Sorry for what " "For shouting at you. It's just that when I think about the future I keep panicking. It's like falling from the top of the stairs in the dark not knowing where I'll end up." He put his arm around my shoulders. "I understand. Life is precarious for most of us but more so for you. What you forget is what most of your friends see in you." "What's that " "The ability to beat the odds..." "And fall on my feet " He nodded. "I just hope that lasts." "It will Catkin it will. It wouldn't dare fail you." future hope survival Julia Golding
ddf3fa6 As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning. hope dies fingers sparks morning sunshine walk running evening city Markus Zusak
bc38acf I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart. grief loss hope Catherine Gilbert Murdock
a62bcce The winds shifted, and Abraxos rode them, rising higher into the sky, the darkened kingdom below passing by in a blur. Changing winds--a changing world. Perhaps a changing Thirteen, too. And herself. She didn't know what to make of it, But Manon hoped they'd all survive it. She hoped. hope pg642 manon-blackbeak Sarah J. Maas
c4888c0 "We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung, And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. youth hope love truth torment honor lost Rudyard Kipling
1b7f97e There would be love, and while it was mine, I could cling to it. I could rejoice -- in life, in the existence of love. In the existence of people like Phedre and Joscelin. Although the standards they set were impossibly high, still, I could rejoice that such courage and compassion existed in the world. I could hope and aspire. hope life love Jacqueline Carey
4db4dc1 Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit hope truth christopher-moore Christopher Moore
235b1bc Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears? pain hope love tears Anne Brontë
34e6e71 I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future. opportunity future hope new-life Joan Didion
8281505 It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings...Meetings. Beginnings. It's not too late...to believe in them after the fact. hope life inspirational Natsuki Takaya
b83f6b5 Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives? hope Margaret Atwood
50ff67e She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven. heaven risk faith hope life love oppurtunity choices-and-consequences Nicholas Sparks
231b896 What is false about hope? faith hope Mitch Albom
beb8de4 To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn. hope hope-for-the-future watching David Hewson
31b712a Look up. hope love Luanne Rice
84ef879 There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp. grief futility depression hope dark-history falling-short haunted-past smoke-in-the-eyes why-the-world-needs-jesus unrest pointlessness bittersweet-memories sins heartache vanity disappointment expectations despair regrets nostalgia Joseph Conrad
c6a44f6 She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart. hope Elizabeth von Arnim
3176def "In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them." compassion god hope Louisa May Alcott
a8aaa85 We have learned to see the world in gasps. inspiration hope restriction Margaret Atwood
73a7d10 You can`t change destinies already written, that only happens in fairy tales. love-story hope Katie McGarry
10c2a5f "Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error. At sixty-eight, I hope I've gained some wisdom in the past fourteen lustrums and it's obligatory to speak plain and true about the conclusions I've come to; now that I have been educated to believe by such mentors as Wells, Stapledon, Heinlein, van Vogt, Clarke, Pohl, (S. Fowler) Wright, Orwell, Taine, Temple, Gernsback, Campbell and other seminal influences in scientifiction, I regret the lack of any female writers but only Radclyffe Hall opened my eyes outside sci-fi. fairy-tales morality science hope humanist belief science-fiction secular danger utopia atheist respect sci-fi Forrest J. Ackerman
c4ceedd I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother's death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her back. All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her. There was an instability in it, a sickness. I was seeing things that weren't there. I was only one step away from some trailer park loner stalking a girl he'd spotted in the mall. For the truth of it was: Pippa and I saw each other maybe twice a year; we e-mailed and texted, though with no great regularity; when she was in town we loaned each other books and went to the movies; we were friends; nothing more. My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless, unrequited obsession any way to waste the rest of my life? grief loss relationship reality past hope delusional delusional-love unreal loner delusion save hunger stalking misery hopeless frustration obsession waste unrequited-love sickness Donna Tartt
888171d Except heaven is a hope , and eden is a memory . heaven hope memory Craig Thompson
7205990 "Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of the lie - not only that of lying with words but that of lying with one's voice, one's gesture, one's eyes, one's facial expression. How should the child be prepared for this specifically human ingenuity: the lie? Most of us are awakened, some more and some less brutally, to the fact that people often do not mean what they say or say the opposite of what they mean. And not only "people," but the very people we trusted most - our parents, teachers, leaders." hope truth disillusionment society innocence lie Erich Fromm
36d367c When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so. reality hope life Agatha Christie
0a8410f I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart. pain illusion dreams sadness heart hope lifeless soulless sensation wounds emptiness Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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