All Quotes By Tag: Hope
“I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.”
“After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding.”
“I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful lives, a yearning for values we can commonly embrace. I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.”
“Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.”
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“Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.”
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“If I were a character in one of my books, I’d be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same.”
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“Faith without a measure of doubt ain’t worth a brass farthin’.”
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“Don’t hope you will receive help from the words of life because they all bring you to death.”
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“We hope that we will live only because we must be with God, as alive as He is.”
“Impending doom, it was a familiar sweater, we all wore it and as scratchy as it felt against our skin, we kept it on.”
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“We can ast for comfort and hope and patience and courage . . . and we’ll git what we ast for. They ain’t no gar’ntee thet we ain’t go’n have no troubles and ain’t go’n die. But shore as frogs croak and cows bellow, God’ll forgive us if’n we ast Him to.”
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“Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy – not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.”
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“There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.”
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“In life there are good and bad situations. But when you are down in the valley looking up at the mountain, sometimes you realize that you can see the stars a little clearer. You realize what’s truly important and you know exactly what must be done to keep it just like it is.”
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“You think you’re paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you’re paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college.”
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