All Quotes By Tag: Hope

“Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde”

“Whoso beset him roundWith dismal storiesDo but themselves confound;His strength the more is.”

“So much of how we think, feel, and live depends on our vision-what we choose to see in any given situation.”

“I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of…of what? Light? Life? Cheese?”

“There is a period for hope and one for mourning.”

“Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.”

“We must look to Mary’s example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement …”

“I’m a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other.”

“The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.”

“In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.”

“What will you do now with the gift of your left life?”

“Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they’re caught by coyotes […]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can’t understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything’s against them, they win.”

“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.”

“No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have beenSince Good, though only thought,Has life and breath -God’s life – can always be redeemed from death.And evil in its nature is decay,And any hour may blot it all away.The hope that lost in some far distance seems,May be the truer life, and this the dream.”

“You know, Molly, if you can hold in your mind what you want long enough, you shall have it.”