Hopefulness Quotes (page 2)

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• death
• hope
• hopes

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death. Paul Ricoeur

• change
• hope
• believe

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change. Jim Wallis

• hope
• reading
• words

Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists. John Updike

• clouds
• black
• morning

Hope abides; therefore I abide. Countless frustrations have not cowed me. I am still alive, vibrant with life. The black cloud will disappear, The morning sun will appear once again. In all its supernal glory. Sri Chinmoy

• hope
• mother
• expectation

Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish? Alfred de Vigny

• hope
• manly
• prove

Hope proves a man deathless. Herman Melville

• hope
• personal
• distance

Hope, Patrick knew, was the exact measure of distance between himself and the person who’d come for help. Jodi Picoult

• hope
• killing
• hoped

Hope and desire, All unfulfilled, Have more than rope. And hangman killed. Stevie Smith

• hope
• lies
• hopes

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies. Laurell K. Hamilton

• hope
• personality
• end

Hopefully, I'll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity. Marilyn Manson

• hope
• hopes
• more

Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating. Cornelia Funke

• appearance
• bad
• best

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better. Maya Angelou

• powerful
• power
• hope

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• hope
• soul
• storm

Hope is the thing with feathers. That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm. That could abash the little bird. That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land. And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. Emily Dickinson

• time
• fate
• disappointment

... hoping that if she just walked down the same street fate would whirl her backward in time until she was once more (fill in your age), when the future was something she had not yet stepped into, when it was just an idea, a moment, something that had not disappointed her yet. Alice Hoffman