I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely “normal” life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more—much, much more. —Melody Carlson in Finding Alice More about this quote Tags: hope purpose certainty ordinary Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. —Florida Scott-Maxwell More about this quote Tags: optimism hope improvement mother motherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness. —Reinhold Niebuhr More about this quote Tags: love life history hope beauty accomplishment forgiveness change faith Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. —Cavett Robert More about this quote Tags: optimism hope perception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. —John F. Kennedy More about this quote Tags: life hope strength prayer Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That's your choice. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: hope freedom change improvement guarantee Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. —Saki More about this quote Tags: hope memory old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough. —Nicholas Sparks in The Longest Ride More about this quote Tags: hope experience fate Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We make people into Gods, desperate that they never leave us and hopeful that someday, if we ever deserve it, maybe they'll love us back even half way. —Jennifer Elisabeth in Born Ready More about this quote Tags: love hope people gods Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for. —Ruth Prawer Jhabvala More about this quote Tags: hope writing trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that having something to hope for—even if it's just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet. —Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller More about this quote Tags: power hope better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When, at some point in our lives, we meet a real tragedy — which could happen to any one of us — we can react in two ways. Obviously, we can lose hope, let ourselves slip into discouragement, into alcohol, drugs, and unending sadness. Or else we can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force. —14th Dalai Lama More about this quote Tags: hope sadness tragedy energy alcohol live clarity drugs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Despair is a greater deceiver than hope. —Marqui de Vauvenargues More about this quote Tags: hope despair sadness deception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there. —Vita Sackville-West More about this quote Tags: hope paradise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Tags: life hope Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email