Hope Quotes - Page 40

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.

Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.

Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.

Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives.

When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and expectations. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and bespangled with variety of Flowers, and at other times wholly dismantled of all these; here to recompense the loss of past pleasures, and to buoy up their hopes of another Spring, many have placed in their Gardens, Statues, and Figures of several Animals, and great variety of other curious pieces of Workmanship, that their walks might be pleasant at any time in those places of never dying pleasures.

Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ..." "I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.

Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.