|
a3212d1
|
There are no shadows in the Underdark. There is no room for imagination in the Underdark. It is a place for alertness, but not aliveness, a place with no room for hopes and dreams.
|
|
imagination
hope
shadows
|
R.A. Salvatore |
|
857e3f9
|
Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe--with charity--that there is still room for Hope.
|
|
history
christianity
reality
religion
hope
parousia
charity
catholicism
christian
|
Umberto Eco |
|
4af1d32
|
I will take you home, his lord had said. Home. He held to that word, as a man holds to a rope in a raging sea.
|
|
hope
redemption
|
Elizabeth A. Lynn |
|
5c1afd3
|
We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were astonished every day.
|
|
politics
hope
|
Rebecca Solnit |
|
8098c19
|
"Slaves hung on determinedly to their selves, to their love of family, their wholeness. A shoemaker on the South Carolina Sea Islands expressed in his own way: "I'se lost an arm, but it hasn't gone out of my brains."
|
|
slavery
hope
|
Howard Zinn |
|
ba49e76
|
What could Maria call the time that opened ahead of her? The certainty of her hope? This rejuvenated air she was breathing? This incandescence, this bursting of a love at last without object?
|
|
time
hope
love
breathing-room
certainty
|
Marguerite Duras |
|
ba13855
|
"Look to the east," she said, "for always, while the light dies in the west, there is the promise of rebirth from the east."
|
|
hope
life
rebirth
|
Marion Zimmer Bradley |
|
733cf38
|
"...Look, I'm real sorry about Cheryl, I know you loved her a lot," Mandy apologized gloomily. "It's wrong that people have to keep killing off Pollution." "It's alright, I think she wants to be remediated," Alecto told her calmly, though his grief-stricken and depressed expression said more to Mandy than his words did. "You don't have to forget Cheryl, no matter what Mearth said to you," Mandy pointed out. "People shouldn't be forced to forget what they love, or to just get over the death of what they love. Cheryl was your friend and nobody can make you forget her if you don't want to."
|
|
grief
loss
depression
fear
death
friendship
hope
love
grief-stricken
removal
remediation
confusion
lonliness
pollution
help
uncertainty
memory
|
Rebecca McNutt |
|
4cd59ff
|
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.
|
|
future
hope
|
Howard Zinn |
|
a8cdff5
|
Purgatory is hell with hope.
|
|
hope
purgatory
hell
|
Philip José Farmer |
|
547442a
|
If you did a thing hoping a person wouldn't find out, that person always did.
|
|
hope
finding-out-the-truth
hoping
|
Larry McMurtry |
|
411c32e
|
Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal...
|
|
politics
hope
|
Rebecca Solnit |
|
c49ce11
|
The thinnest shaft of light entered the empty chambers of my heart, just for a moment. Then it disappeared, extinguished by the weight of all that had gone before.
|
|
hope
smile
|
Kate Mosse |
|
f7504e8
|
No importa la fe que ofrece determinado movimiento, sino la esperanza que propone
|
|
life-lessons
hope
|
Umberto Eco |
|
4a4a799
|
Is there a notion of hope (and of our responsibility to the future) that could be shared by believers and nonbelievers? What can it be based on now? Does an idea of the end, one that does not imply disinterest in the future but rather a constant examination of the errors of the past, have a critical function? If not, it would be perfectly all right to accept the approach of the end, even without thinking about it, sitting in front of our TV screens (in the shelter of our electronic fortifications), waiting for someone to while meantime things go however they go. And to hell with what will come.
|
|
responsibility
history
future
past
religion
hope
life
end-of-time
end-of-the-world
entertainment
|
Umberto Eco |
|
2aa7bec
|
If you will count, count the stars, dear one. How many stars in the sky, looking down on us as we lie in each other's arms and taste joy? How many gleaming fish in the lake where I splash our son in the water and hear his streaks of glee ring out in the clear air? A fine little salmon you made, that night in the rain. How many times does the heart beat, how fast does the blood run when at last we touch, and touch again, and breathe the same desperate, longing breath? Count those things, for they are the stuff of life and hope.
|
|
hope
life
love
|
Juliet Marillier |
|
0788f8e
|
Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'.. .. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends called me. 'Well, Mitch it is then,' Morrie says, as if closing a deal. 'And, Mitch?' Yes? 'I hope one day you will think of me as your friend.
|
|
hope
nickname
student
professor
introduction
name
|
Mitch Albom |
|
ccc36d5
|
The people who had been recognized for making original contributions shared many more stories that started negatively but surged upward: they struggled early and triumphed later. Despite being confronted with more negative events, they reported greater satisfaction with their lives and a stronger sense of purpose.
|
|
struggle
hope
improvement
patience
|
Adam M. Grant |
|
e630222
|
Dreams are their own knife, Kaylin. Dreams, what-ifs, desires. We all have to have hope.
|
|
hope
severn
kaylin
|
Michelle Sagara |
|
3e07718
|
If your attitude is one of gratefully searching for God's truth & goodness in any situation, it will change your life.
|
|
god
hope
inspirational
motivational-quotes
christian
|
Stormie Omartian |
|
5065f05
|
The Empire was quickly becoming the , a featureless grey enemy that species of varied sorts would be able to stave off only if they united, all differences set aside. It was almost heartening to witness the dawn of hope, as cautious and fragile as it was.
|
|
hope
|
James Luceno |
|
d545521
|
The past is a novel, written by Fate, weaving the same themes: love and its glory, hate and its prisoners, the soul and its price. Our decisions become narratives: fated choices that unknowably change the course of the living river. In the present, where decisions and connections are made, Fate waits on the riverbank of Story, leaving us to our mistakes and miracles, because it's our will alone that leads us to one or the other.
|
|
fate
past
hope
love
glory
prison
|
Gregory David Roberts |
|
113bef6
|
Hope fought hard to stay alive. Even when you thought it was beaten to nothing, burned to ashes, drowned deep, still it flickered away, waiting to be found again.
|
|
hope
hopeful-heart
endurance
|
Juliet Marillier |
|
d420301
|
The heart of evil beats in Afghanistan. When men hold every advantage, neither wealth, nor beauty, nor intelligence, nor education, nor strength, nor family can compete with gender. Women have only prayer and hope as allies.
|
|
war
feminism
prayer
women
hope
rights
boys
evil
|
Jean Sasson |
|
90e34b3
|
"Today is a hard day." Sometimes, there are hard days. Days stretched so tight with pain that they seem as if they can allow no room for hope."
|
|
time
pain
hope
hard-day
hopeful
room
|
Libba Bray |
|
a5eeb69
|
Was it wrong to hope to be happy?
|
|
hope
|
Zadie Smith |
|
899eef4
|
"Tell yourselves whatever you'd like, but I'm afraid it doesn't make it true," Mearth sighed, beginning to look impatient. "Step aside Mandy, I have to remediate him, otherwise you'll find yourself in a whole mess of trouble." "You can't do this, it's wrong," Mandy insisted. "You don't have a choice, Mandy! Either you let his life compromise the lives of everybody else in the world, or you let me remediate him and get it over with," Mearth icily declared. "...Do what she says, Mandy Valems...." Alecto added, standing up and staring with glazed eyes at Mearth. "I can't," said Mandy. "...Go away!" Alecto shouted at her suddenly, glaring with narrowed eyes, speaking in a voice that hardly sounded like his own. "Get out of here, Mandy Valems! I hate you, I want you to leave me alone! Go home and don't ever come back here!" "I...." Mandy started, looking totally shocked. "I said I hate you, don't you understand anything? Go away, get out of here!" Alecto repeated menacingly, stepping forward in a threatening manner. He looked like a mad dog, shivering as he chased her away from his site. She tearfully took off running, seeming both shocked and horrified, and he watched her leave for a moment with a blank expression, his dark eyes hollow. He looked like he was going to black out, but Mearth walked quickly towards him, for once not smiling at all. If it weren't for her eyes, she would've looked like a person. "That was very cruel of you to do, Sydney Tar Ponds. I thought you loved her," she disappointedly exclaimed. "I do love her, she's my friend, and that's why I said that stuff to her," Alecto replied forlornly. "None of it's true, I don't hate her at all... but I know what's going to happen and I don't want her to see it, so I lied to her and told her I hated her... can you explain to her after... why I said all that to her?"
|
|
illness
earth
grief
loss
depression
faith
death
friendship
hope
life
love
nova-scotia
environment
rescue
pollution
help
dog
dying
|
Rebecca McNutt |
|
032e6a3
|
"I don't know why I keep asking you these questions. It's not like I expect you to answer, and even if you did answer, how would I know? But maybe that doesn't matter. Maybe when I ask you a question like "You doing okay?" you should just tell me, even if I can't hear you, and then I'll just sit here and imagine what you might say. You might say, "sure thing, Nao. I'm okay. I'm doing just fine." "Okay, awesome" I would say to you, and then we would smile at each other across time like we were friends, because we are friends by now, aren't we?"
|
|
friendship
hope
soul-connections
intuition
|
Ruth Ozeki |
|
ad75303
|
My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn and reveres truth. It lives open eyed and wholeheartedly with the darkness that is woven ineluctably into the light of life and sometimes seems to overcome it. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory.
|
|
virtue
spirit
faith
religion
spiritual
hope
truth
wholeheartedness
on-being
enoughness
habit
|
Krista Tippett |
|
b720e58
|
Siempre deja la ventura una puerta abierta en las desdichas, para dar remedio a ellas.
|
|
spanish
hope
quijote
consejo
sabiduria
español
españa
|
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
|
ce30b4a
|
There were countless injustices and difficulties in this world, but small points of light too, where the darkness was held back.
|
|
injustice
light
hope
|
Alexander McCall Smith |
|
8a348d5
|
...when she had those dreams at night, he was there, as if he had never died, although she knew, even in the dream, that he had. One day she would join him, she knew, whatever people said about how we came to an end when we took our last breath. Some people mocked you if you said that you joined others when your time came. Well, they could laugh, those clever people, but we surely had to hope, and a life without hope of any sort was no life: it was a sky without stars, a landscape of sorrow and emptiness.
|
|
hope
|
Alexander McCall Smith |
|
ad62331
|
"Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?" One child said, "The misuse of power is the root of all evil?" Alice said, "Well...." Another child said, "There is no justice on the earth?" Alice said, "Well..." Another child said, "We are all alone in the world?" Alice said, "Well..." Another child said, "The greatest depth of our loss is the beginning of true freedom?" Alice said, "Well..." Another child said, "The disposal of human waste is the responsibility of the brokenhearted?" These were all phrases Alice had put on the chalkboard after other field trips. It occurred to Alice, hearing these phrases now, that she might have attempted to do too much with a class of fourth graders. She was willing to admit to some excesses. Alice said, "Just listen."
|
|
understanding
education
hope
|
Lewis Nordan |
|
3801066
|
"Hope It started out as snow, oh, big flakes floating softly, catching on my sweater, lacy on the edges of my sleeves. Snow covered the dust, softened the fences, soothe the parched lips of the land. And then it changed halfway between snow and rain, sleet, glazing the earth. Until at last it slipped into rain, light as mist. It was the kindest kind of rain that fell. Soft and then a little heavier, helping along what had already fallen into the hard-pan earth until it rained, steady as a good friend who walks beside you, not getting in your way, staying with you through a hard time. And because the rain came so patient and slow at first, and built up strength as the earth remembered how to yield, instead of washing off, the water slid in, into the dying ground
|
|
rain
hope
snow
|
Karen Hesse |
|
f8454a9
|
SALLY: Grab what you want and hope for the best.
|
|
hope
mc-romance
|
Bijou Hunter |
|
9b7ed25
|
I could see in her a piece of the bright hope I once had in myself and it made me sour and angry. It made me feel sorry for her too. I wanted to take both her hands in mine, look her in the eye, and let her see that the world isn't interested in a little black girl's dreams.
|
|
youth
dreams
hope
anger
pity
aging
|
Jeanette Winterson |
|
c2e959c
|
Nature has buffered our children not only physically-- prepubescent children have the lowest death rate from all causes-- but psychologically as well, by endowing them with hope, abundant and irrational.
|
|
hope
irrational
|
Martin E.P. Seligman |
|
e531fa7
|
Nature has buffered out children not only physically--prepubescent children have the lowest death rate from all causes-- but psychologically as well, by endowing them with hope, abundant and irrational.
|
|
hope
irrational
|
Martin E.P. Seligman |
|
8299cd2
|
In all my lives, the only thing I've seen save people from themselves is hope. Hope beyond logic. Hope beyond what the eye can see. Filled with hope, the human spirit is an insatiable force of energy, transcending biology to embrace something eternal. Without hope, the spirit dies and nothing awaits but death.
|
|
spirituality
hope
|
Terry Moore |
|
1787c69
|
I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made the playoffs, or you saw a movie, or a billboard glowing dusky orange and advertising Aruba, or a girl who bore more than a passing resemblance to a woman you'd dated in high school-- a woman you'd loved and lost-- danced above you with shimmering eyes, and you said, fuck it, let's dream just one more time.
|
|
pain
hope
misery
|
Dennis Lehane |
|
7b19ab3
|
Le speranze le hanno le persone, ma i destini li distribuisce il diavolo.
|
|
people
hope
devil
|
Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
|
7c21a26
|
Pero las ilusiones son como las telaranas, que son muy faciles de deshacer, y en seguida volvia a la realidad. ?Y donde estaba la felicidad? ?En los ayeres? ?En los mananas? No, ciertamente en esta hora, en este minuto, en este segundo. Solo teniamos una cosa, una tan solo, que nos diese una chispita de alegria: la esperanza.
|
|
hope
life
|
V.C. Andrews |
|
f7e5f62
|
... but in the depths of their hearts, in that true and ultimate depth which is revealed to no one, there remained the memory of what had taken place and the consciousness that was has once been can be again; there remained too hope, a seneless hope, that great asset of the downtrodden. For those who rule and must oppress in order to rule must work according to reason; and if, carried away by their passions or driven by an adversary, they go beyond the limits of reasonable action, they start down the slippery slope and thereby reveal the commencement of their own downfall. Whereas those who are downtrodden and exploited make equal use of their reason and unreason for they are but two different kinds of arms in the continual struggle, now underground, now open, against the oppressor.
|
|
struggle
reason
hope
abused
adversary
arrogant-men
domestic-abuse
power
|
Ivo Andrić |
|
2fabd27
|
"I think that is not true," Uncle Henrik said. "I think you are like your mama,and like your papa, and like me. Frightened, but determined, and if the time came to be brave, I quite sure you would be very, very brave." "But," he added, "it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything. And so your mama does not know everything.Neither do I. We only know what we need to know." "Do you understand what I am saying?" he asked, looking into her eyes.
|
|
hope
number-the-stars
holocaust
world-war-ii
|
Lois Lowry |
|
c8ab93f
|
Sherrie described atheism as a positive system of belief--one based on data, exploration and observation rather than scripture, creed and prayer. Atheists believe that human life is a chemical phenomenon, that our first parents were super-novas that happened billions of years ago--that humans are inexplicable miracles in a universe of structured chaos. Atheists believe that when we die, we will turn into organic debris which will continue cycling for billions of years in various incarnations. Sherrie explained that atheists appreciate life unfathomably because it is going to end. No one who takes atheism seriously dies without hope.
|
|
hope
philosophy
caitlin-moran
carl-sagan
richard-dawkins
science-vs-religion
science-and-religion
atheist
dying
|
Israel Morrow |
|
a23e3ed
|
This is the Centre Americain de Secours. What is more American than wild hope?
|
|
hope
|
Julie Orringer |