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Hope is the quiet force that keeps us moving forward, even when the path ahead feels uncertain. It shows up in small moments of courage, resilience, and belief that tomorrow can be better than today. The quotes that follow reflect the many ways hope lifts, steadies, and reminds us why we keep going.   ◀ Back
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Hope is a delicate flower which refuses to be crushed under life's brutal heel.
- John Mark Green
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Topic: Hope
The human capacity for self-delusion is apparently infinite – and if that is the case, how are we ever meant to know, except by existing in a state of absolute pessimism, that once again we are fooling ourselves?
- Rachel Cusk
Outline
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Topic: Hope
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carollings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.
- Thomas Hardy
The Complete Poems
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Topic: Hope
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.
- bell hooks
Teaching Community
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Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATING ▼
Just above our terror, the stars painted this story
in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often
abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
- Aberjhani
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
Topic: Hope
There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.
- Neal A. Maxwell
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.
- Pope Benedict XVI
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.
- Jennifer Elisabeth
Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.
- Cecelia Ahern
The Book of Tomorrow
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.
- William Faulkner
Intruder in the Dust
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the bubbling up of a sanguine temperament; if it is demanded of us, it lies not in the temperament but in the will... Hoping for what? For delivereance from persecution, for immunity from plague, pestilence, and famine...? No, for the grace of persevering in his Christian profession, and for the consequent achievement of a happy immortality. Strictly speaking, then, the highest exercise of hope, supernaturally speaking, is to hope for perseverance and for Heaven when it looks, when it feels, as if you were going to lose both one and the other.
- Ronald Knox
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Everything happens for a reason. Just be patient.
- Michael Christos Zeis
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
When you were a child, you used to run to me for protection. Now, in moments of weakness, I want to hide my head on your knees; I want you to be strong and wise; I want you to protect and defend me. I'm not always strong in spirit, Vitya – I can be weak too. I often think about suicide, but something holds me back – some weakness, or strength, or irrational hope.
- Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer .... What good is your reality then?"

" .... I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice .... and I never promised you peace or happiness .... The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie...and a bore, too!
- Joanne Greenberg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
You can give illness to her body but you can't take the gypsy out of that girl.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope.
- Patrick Curry
Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity – Essential Literary Criticism on Spirit, Ecology, and Ethics for Fans
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the vital spirituality of hope and increase that exist in the body and soul of nescient childhood. Caeiro’s work is a dawn that wakes us up and quickens us; a more that material, more than anti-spiritual dawn. It’s an abstract effect, pure vacuum, nothingness.
- Álvaro de Campos
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, is a sign that the day has just begun and good things can still happen. Having lunch is like throwing in the towel.
- Jonathan Goldstein
Lenny Bruce is Dead
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
- Jodi Picoult
Lone Wolf
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency.
- Steven Galloway
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hopeless change be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it.
- Mitch Albom
Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
More than a thousand people have been imprisoned—suspected of being part of the conspiracy—including all who served the royal family. Joliette is not safe—anywhere in France. If they discover your noble identity, you will beat me to the guillotine.
- Debra Borchert
Her Own Legacy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.
My mind, I hope, will soon be found.
- Tahereh Mafi
Destroy Me
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope is a delicate flower which refuses to be crushed under life's brutal heel.
- John Mark Green
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
The human capacity for self-delusion is apparently infinite – and if that is the case, how are we ever meant to know, except by existing in a state of absolute pessimism, that once again we are fooling ourselves?
- Rachel Cusk
Outline
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carollings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.
- Thomas Hardy
The Complete Poems
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.
- bell hooks
Teaching Community
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATING ▼
Just above our terror, the stars painted this story
in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often
abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
- Aberjhani
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
Topic: Hope
There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.
- Neal A. Maxwell
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.
- Pope Benedict XVI
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.
- Jennifer Elisabeth
Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.
- Cecelia Ahern
The Book of Tomorrow
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.
- William Faulkner
Intruder in the Dust
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the bubbling up of a sanguine temperament; if it is demanded of us, it lies not in the temperament but in the will... Hoping for what? For delivereance from persecution, for immunity from plague, pestilence, and famine...? No, for the grace of persevering in his Christian profession, and for the consequent achievement of a happy immortality. Strictly speaking, then, the highest exercise of hope, supernaturally speaking, is to hope for perseverance and for Heaven when it looks, when it feels, as if you were going to lose both one and the other.
- Ronald Knox
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Everything happens for a reason. Just be patient.
- Michael Christos Zeis
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
When you were a child, you used to run to me for protection. Now, in moments of weakness, I want to hide my head on your knees; I want you to be strong and wise; I want you to protect and defend me. I'm not always strong in spirit, Vitya – I can be weak too. I often think about suicide, but something holds me back – some weakness, or strength, or irrational hope.
- Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer .... What good is your reality then?"

" .... I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice .... and I never promised you peace or happiness .... The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie...and a bore, too!
- Joanne Greenberg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
You can give illness to her body but you can't take the gypsy out of that girl.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope.
- Patrick Curry
Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity – Essential Literary Criticism on Spirit, Ecology, and Ethics for Fans
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the vital spirituality of hope and increase that exist in the body and soul of nescient childhood. Caeiro’s work is a dawn that wakes us up and quickens us; a more that material, more than anti-spiritual dawn. It’s an abstract effect, pure vacuum, nothingness.
- Álvaro de Campos
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, is a sign that the day has just begun and good things can still happen. Having lunch is like throwing in the towel.
- Jonathan Goldstein
Lenny Bruce is Dead
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
- Jodi Picoult
Lone Wolf
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency.
- Steven Galloway
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hopeless change be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it.
- Mitch Albom
Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
More than a thousand people have been imprisoned—suspected of being part of the conspiracy—including all who served the royal family. Joliette is not safe—anywhere in France. If they discover your noble identity, you will beat me to the guillotine.
- Debra Borchert
Her Own Legacy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.
My mind, I hope, will soon be found.
- Tahereh Mafi
Destroy Me
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope is a delicate flower which refuses to be crushed under life's brutal heel.
- John Mark Green
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
The human capacity for self-delusion is apparently infinite – and if that is the case, how are we ever meant to know, except by existing in a state of absolute pessimism, that once again we are fooling ourselves?
- Rachel Cusk
Outline
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carollings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.
- Thomas Hardy
The Complete Poems
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.
- bell hooks
Teaching Community
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATING ▼
Just above our terror, the stars painted this story
in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often
abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
- Aberjhani
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
Topic: Hope
There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.
- Neal A. Maxwell
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.
- Pope Benedict XVI
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.
- Jennifer Elisabeth
Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.
- Cecelia Ahern
The Book of Tomorrow
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.
- William Faulkner
Intruder in the Dust
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the bubbling up of a sanguine temperament; if it is demanded of us, it lies not in the temperament but in the will... Hoping for what? For delivereance from persecution, for immunity from plague, pestilence, and famine...? No, for the grace of persevering in his Christian profession, and for the consequent achievement of a happy immortality. Strictly speaking, then, the highest exercise of hope, supernaturally speaking, is to hope for perseverance and for Heaven when it looks, when it feels, as if you were going to lose both one and the other.
- Ronald Knox
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Everything happens for a reason. Just be patient.
- Michael Christos Zeis
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
When you were a child, you used to run to me for protection. Now, in moments of weakness, I want to hide my head on your knees; I want you to be strong and wise; I want you to protect and defend me. I'm not always strong in spirit, Vitya – I can be weak too. I often think about suicide, but something holds me back – some weakness, or strength, or irrational hope.
- Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer .... What good is your reality then?"

" .... I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice .... and I never promised you peace or happiness .... The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie...and a bore, too!
- Joanne Greenberg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
You can give illness to her body but you can't take the gypsy out of that girl.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope.
- Patrick Curry
Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity – Essential Literary Criticism on Spirit, Ecology, and Ethics for Fans
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the vital spirituality of hope and increase that exist in the body and soul of nescient childhood. Caeiro’s work is a dawn that wakes us up and quickens us; a more that material, more than anti-spiritual dawn. It’s an abstract effect, pure vacuum, nothingness.
- Álvaro de Campos
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, is a sign that the day has just begun and good things can still happen. Having lunch is like throwing in the towel.
- Jonathan Goldstein
Lenny Bruce is Dead
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
- Jodi Picoult
Lone Wolf
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency.
- Steven Galloway
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hopeless change be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it.
- Mitch Albom
Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
More than a thousand people have been imprisoned—suspected of being part of the conspiracy—including all who served the royal family. Joliette is not safe—anywhere in France. If they discover your noble identity, you will beat me to the guillotine.
- Debra Borchert
Her Own Legacy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.
My mind, I hope, will soon be found.
- Tahereh Mafi
Destroy Me
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
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111
112
113
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