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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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The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you have already succeeded. That is to say, if your activism is already democratic, peaceful, creative, then in one small corner of the world these things have triumphed. Activism, in this model, is not only a toolbox to change things but a home in which to take up residence and live according to your beliefs, even if it's a temporary and local place...
- Rebecca Solnit
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
Topic: Hope
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The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.
- Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Fear not the unknown. It is a sea of possibilities.
- Tom Althouse
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The future, at least, had the advantage of not being the present, and the worse can always take a turn for the better... For, strange though it may seem, she had faith. Composed of fine organic matter, she existed. Pure and simple.
- Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
A DAY LAYE"

"Every dawn of our lives a heart is forged and
Linked with lore to one so similar
Born with blessed life dust
Stored beneath its soul
To bless and pass onto its children
Even though the wind may blow it all away
Don't ever worry 'cos I'm your friend.
- Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan Lyric Book
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
And where are the windows? Where does the light come in?
Bernie, old friend, forgive me, but I haven't got the answer to that one. I'm not even sure if there are any windows in this particular house. Maybe the light is just going to have to come in as best it can, through whatever chunks and cracks have been left in the builder's faulty craftsmanship, and if that's the case you can be sure that nobody feels worse about it than I do. God knows, Bernie; God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.
- Richard Yates
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Here is little habit that can make a big difference. Send sunbeams. Intentionally send a word of encouragement or appreciation every day to one person.
- Steve Goodier
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Hope...which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.
- Ian Caldwell
The Rule of Four
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.
- David Mitchell
Ghostwritten
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
As we sail in the voyage of life,
the love and joy we shared count more than anything else.
Let them feel the rhythm of our heart,
share them the music of our soul,
for a meaningful, fulfilling moments of today,
for a hopeful, promising and joyful tomorrow
- Angelica Hopes
Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.
- Susanna Kearsley
The Winter Sea
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Oh no," I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.
- Brock Clarke
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
And where are the windows? Where does the light come in?
Bernie, old friend, forgive me, but I haven't got the answer to that one. I'm not even sure if there are any windows in this particular house. Maybe the light is just going to have to come in as best it can, through whatever chinks and cracks have been left in the builder's faulty craftsmanship, and if that's the case you can be sure that nobody feels worse about it than I do. God knows, Bernie; God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.
- Richard Yates
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The traumatized person is often relieved simply to learn the true name of her condition. By ascertaining her diagnosis, she begins the process of mastery. No longer imprisoned in the wordlessness of the trauma, she discovers that there is a language for her experience. She discovers that she is not alone; others have suffered in similar ways. She discovers further that she is not crazy; the traumatic syndromes are normal human responses to extreme circumstances. And she discovers, finally, that she is not doomed to suffer this condition indefinitely; she can expect to recover, as others have recovered...
- Judith Lewis Herman
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in such a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not always wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
La vie est vaine,
Un peu d’amour,
Un peu de haine,
Et puis—Bonjour!

La vie est brève:
Un peu d’espoir,
Un peu de rève
Et puis—Bon soir!

Ah, brief is Life,
Love’s short sweet way,
With dreamings rife,
And then—Good-day!

And Life is vain—
Hope’s vague delight,
Grief’s transient pain,
And then—Good-night.
- George du Maurie
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The merchants of hope will never go out of business
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow – Hope shining upon the tears of grief.
Topic: Hope, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it?
- Andre Dubus
Dancing After Hours
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
But love doesn't always generate hope. Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much love or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water--the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it.
- Kevin Brockmeier
The Brief History of the Dead
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
[God] loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our résumé but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

What this means is that, regardless of our current state, there is hope for us. No matter our distress, no matter our sorrow, no matter our mistakes, our infinitely compassionate Heavenly Father desires that we draw near to Him so that He can draw near to us.
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The key is love
It is the gateway
To hope
To joy
To enhanced living
Love is the answer
- Karen Hackel
The Whisper Of Your Soul
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Keep your eyes on the future, because that's where the answers are. It's where the hope is.
- Holly Cupala
Tell Me a Secret
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
God is writing His story on the pages of our lives.
- Rick Anderson
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you have already succeeded. That is to say, if your activism is already democratic, peaceful, creative, then in one small corner of the world these things have triumphed. Activism, in this model, is not only a toolbox to change things but a home in which to take up residence and live according to your beliefs, even if it's a temporary and local place...
- Rebecca Solnit
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.
- Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Fear not the unknown. It is a sea of possibilities.
- Tom Althouse
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The future, at least, had the advantage of not being the present, and the worse can always take a turn for the better... For, strange though it may seem, she had faith. Composed of fine organic matter, she existed. Pure and simple.
- Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
A DAY LAYE"

"Every dawn of our lives a heart is forged and
Linked with lore to one so similar
Born with blessed life dust
Stored beneath its soul
To bless and pass onto its children
Even though the wind may blow it all away
Don't ever worry 'cos I'm your friend.
- Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan Lyric Book
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
And where are the windows? Where does the light come in?
Bernie, old friend, forgive me, but I haven't got the answer to that one. I'm not even sure if there are any windows in this particular house. Maybe the light is just going to have to come in as best it can, through whatever chunks and cracks have been left in the builder's faulty craftsmanship, and if that's the case you can be sure that nobody feels worse about it than I do. God knows, Bernie; God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.
- Richard Yates
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Here is little habit that can make a big difference. Send sunbeams. Intentionally send a word of encouragement or appreciation every day to one person.
- Steve Goodier
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Hope...which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.
- Ian Caldwell
The Rule of Four
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.
- David Mitchell
Ghostwritten
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
As we sail in the voyage of life,
the love and joy we shared count more than anything else.
Let them feel the rhythm of our heart,
share them the music of our soul,
for a meaningful, fulfilling moments of today,
for a hopeful, promising and joyful tomorrow
- Angelica Hopes
Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.
- Susanna Kearsley
The Winter Sea
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Oh no," I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.
- Brock Clarke
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
And where are the windows? Where does the light come in?
Bernie, old friend, forgive me, but I haven't got the answer to that one. I'm not even sure if there are any windows in this particular house. Maybe the light is just going to have to come in as best it can, through whatever chinks and cracks have been left in the builder's faulty craftsmanship, and if that's the case you can be sure that nobody feels worse about it than I do. God knows, Bernie; God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.
- Richard Yates
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The traumatized person is often relieved simply to learn the true name of her condition. By ascertaining her diagnosis, she begins the process of mastery. No longer imprisoned in the wordlessness of the trauma, she discovers that there is a language for her experience. She discovers that she is not alone; others have suffered in similar ways. She discovers further that she is not crazy; the traumatic syndromes are normal human responses to extreme circumstances. And she discovers, finally, that she is not doomed to suffer this condition indefinitely; she can expect to recover, as others have recovered...
- Judith Lewis Herman
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in such a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not always wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
La vie est vaine,
Un peu d’amour,
Un peu de haine,
Et puis—Bonjour!

La vie est brève:
Un peu d’espoir,
Un peu de rève
Et puis—Bon soir!

Ah, brief is Life,
Love’s short sweet way,
With dreamings rife,
And then—Good-day!

And Life is vain—
Hope’s vague delight,
Grief’s transient pain,
And then—Good-night.
- George du Maurie
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The merchants of hope will never go out of business
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow – Hope shining upon the tears of grief.
Topic: Hope, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it?
- Andre Dubus
Dancing After Hours
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
But love doesn't always generate hope. Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much love or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water--the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it.
- Kevin Brockmeier
The Brief History of the Dead
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
[God] loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our résumé but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

What this means is that, regardless of our current state, there is hope for us. No matter our distress, no matter our sorrow, no matter our mistakes, our infinitely compassionate Heavenly Father desires that we draw near to Him so that He can draw near to us.
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The key is love
It is the gateway
To hope
To joy
To enhanced living
Love is the answer
- Karen Hackel
The Whisper Of Your Soul
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Keep your eyes on the future, because that's where the answers are. It's where the hope is.
- Holly Cupala
Tell Me a Secret
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
God is writing His story on the pages of our lives.
- Rick Anderson
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you have already succeeded. That is to say, if your activism is already democratic, peaceful, creative, then in one small corner of the world these things have triumphed. Activism, in this model, is not only a toolbox to change things but a home in which to take up residence and live according to your beliefs, even if it's a temporary and local place...
- Rebecca Solnit
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.
- Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Fear not the unknown. It is a sea of possibilities.
- Tom Althouse
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The future, at least, had the advantage of not being the present, and the worse can always take a turn for the better... For, strange though it may seem, she had faith. Composed of fine organic matter, she existed. Pure and simple.
- Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
A DAY LAYE"

"Every dawn of our lives a heart is forged and
Linked with lore to one so similar
Born with blessed life dust
Stored beneath its soul
To bless and pass onto its children
Even though the wind may blow it all away
Don't ever worry 'cos I'm your friend.
- Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan Lyric Book
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
And where are the windows? Where does the light come in?
Bernie, old friend, forgive me, but I haven't got the answer to that one. I'm not even sure if there are any windows in this particular house. Maybe the light is just going to have to come in as best it can, through whatever chunks and cracks have been left in the builder's faulty craftsmanship, and if that's the case you can be sure that nobody feels worse about it than I do. God knows, Bernie; God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.
- Richard Yates
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Here is little habit that can make a big difference. Send sunbeams. Intentionally send a word of encouragement or appreciation every day to one person.
- Steve Goodier
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Hope...which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.
- Ian Caldwell
The Rule of Four
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.
- David Mitchell
Ghostwritten
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
As we sail in the voyage of life,
the love and joy we shared count more than anything else.
Let them feel the rhythm of our heart,
share them the music of our soul,
for a meaningful, fulfilling moments of today,
for a hopeful, promising and joyful tomorrow
- Angelica Hopes
Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.
- Susanna Kearsley
The Winter Sea
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Oh no," I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.
- Brock Clarke
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
And where are the windows? Where does the light come in?
Bernie, old friend, forgive me, but I haven't got the answer to that one. I'm not even sure if there are any windows in this particular house. Maybe the light is just going to have to come in as best it can, through whatever chinks and cracks have been left in the builder's faulty craftsmanship, and if that's the case you can be sure that nobody feels worse about it than I do. God knows, Bernie; God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.
- Richard Yates
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The traumatized person is often relieved simply to learn the true name of her condition. By ascertaining her diagnosis, she begins the process of mastery. No longer imprisoned in the wordlessness of the trauma, she discovers that there is a language for her experience. She discovers that she is not alone; others have suffered in similar ways. She discovers further that she is not crazy; the traumatic syndromes are normal human responses to extreme circumstances. And she discovers, finally, that she is not doomed to suffer this condition indefinitely; she can expect to recover, as others have recovered...
- Judith Lewis Herman
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in such a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not always wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
La vie est vaine,
Un peu d’amour,
Un peu de haine,
Et puis—Bonjour!

La vie est brève:
Un peu d’espoir,
Un peu de rève
Et puis—Bon soir!

Ah, brief is Life,
Love’s short sweet way,
With dreamings rife,
And then—Good-day!

And Life is vain—
Hope’s vague delight,
Grief’s transient pain,
And then—Good-night.
- George du Maurie
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The merchants of hope will never go out of business
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow – Hope shining upon the tears of grief.
Topic: Hope, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it?
- Andre Dubus
Dancing After Hours
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
But love doesn't always generate hope. Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much love or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water--the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it.
- Kevin Brockmeier
The Brief History of the Dead
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
[God] loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our résumé but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

What this means is that, regardless of our current state, there is hope for us. No matter our distress, no matter our sorrow, no matter our mistakes, our infinitely compassionate Heavenly Father desires that we draw near to Him so that He can draw near to us.
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
The key is love
It is the gateway
To hope
To joy
To enhanced living
Love is the answer
- Karen Hackel
The Whisper Of Your Soul
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
Keep your eyes on the future, because that's where the answers are. It's where the hope is.
- Holly Cupala
Tell Me a Secret
Topic: Hope
NOT YET RATED ▼
God is writing His story on the pages of our lives.
- Rick Anderson
Topic: Hope
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