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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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I take a deep breath. I can do this. It won’t be like when I tried confessing to Raymond at last year’s school fair and got caught in the cotton candy machine’s vicious pink web. Or, like freshman year, when I gave Toby a valentine that caught on fire for no reason at all. I might always forget exactly what the boy I dream about every night looks like the moment I wake up, but this time is different.
- C.J. Aralore
Gravity’s Fire
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Life comes to us unbridled; shall we hide?
Or will we, through the pleasure and the pain,
embrace the greatest heights we can attain
and smile upon the world with hearts flung wide?
- Susan Noyes Anderson
His Children
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Don’t worry if the flowers pass, I’ll be right there to plant you more
- Liana Cincotti
Picking Daisies on Sundays
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This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament”—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
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Why does it matter, to re-find hope,
to regain hopefulness,
again and again,
in spite of loss, pain, grief--
even devastation?

Because, my love, hope is a feeling, and
how we feel about the world defines us,
defines our reality, our experience of our reality,
how we treat those around us
and ourselves.
- Shellen Lubin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope alone cannot create outcomes
but having hope affects outcomes.
Proceeding with hope
makes more things possible,
may just be what gets you up and out the door,
making anything possible at all.

But hope is an illusion, no?
Yes, my love,
but no more than fear and worry.
They are all illusions because they are all about the future,
and we cannot know the future.

But ...
hope is an illusion that opens us up, inspires joy,
reminds us of possibility,
gets us through trial and tribulation more easily
(like singing in the rhythm of a labor-intensive task
makes it easier to keep on going).
Hope
leads us to more, better, greater things--
maybe not the ideal, the fantasy, even the very thing you hope for--
but more, better, greater
than would otherwise be.
- Shellen Lubin
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Hope is bubbling
in the ocean of our collective lives...

I can feel the hope bubbling inside,
popping little pockets of air
rising to the surface.

I try to suppress them--
too soon, unsure, can't afford to risk--
but why?
And why would I want to?
Those bubbles pop joy into the air,
spring action to life,
and they feel so good,
massaging the soul.
- Shellen Lubin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
- Thomas Moore
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He had said of me, ‘You are fated to be life’s passive participant,’ but I wrestled fate to the ground and suffocated its’ fortune. And yet, his laughter still mocks me, for though the earth has been my stepping stone, only here at the oceans’ side do I feel at ease. Only in your stillness do I find rest.
I am a waning bird
encased in a glass sphere;
I cannot see my prison,
and my cries no one can hear.
- Craig Froman
An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness
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Believing is halfway to achieving.
- Vitor M.C. Rodrigues
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Grief is not an attractive part of life. No one wants to relive it or get a selfie of their grief experience. But suffering (going through) the grieving process made me the conqueror I am today.
- Ron Acosta
Unstoppable Grace: A Memoir
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Write a letter to your vigilante super-hero within and tell them what you want them to do.

Then, throw it up and hope it manifests. Then, remember, provisions take on many forms and it could be the reason you don't have a vigilante super-hero.

Vengeance is mine, says the lord.
- Niedria D. Kenny
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But we were essentially both going through the same thing, and as long as we stayed strong, it would happen eventually, right? For some reason, life had just thrown everything at us, one thing after another. We needed to remain positive; we were going to get the house of our dreams and start building a family, just like we'd wanted.
- Philip Anthony Smith
The Woman He Left Behind
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That little faith of yours can bring dead dreams and visions back to life. Trust me, faith can help you develop wings and soar high. With faith, you can see tomorrow today and listen to your future like it's today's episode.
- Luckson T Mabade
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are tears that blind us and tears that open our eyes. I don't need these eyes; they're too blind to see. But just because I am blind and unable to perceive beauty doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We often don't realize how much of our joy and interest in life comes through our eyes until we have to live without them. Part of that joy is that our eyes can choose where to look, but our minds can't always choose what to think or remember. Over time, our consciousness becomes steeped in the salt of our tears, and we slowly grow sad and lose hope. Perhaps one day, far from now, I will believe again, and when that day comes, I will write to you and see if you respond.
- Rolf van der Wind
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This hope might have appeared to me like a cloud the size of a man’s fist in a vast open sky, in the middle of the desert, in the middle of a drought …
But there was rain in that cloud.
- Jonah Priour
Praying the Word of Grace: The Revival of a Grieving Father's Soul Through the Simple Practice of Scripture-Based Prayer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The river was like a bit of string, following her through time and place, anchoring her here – to a village that she hated with all her heart – but also moving her along.
- Reem Gaafar
A Mouth Full of Salt
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Most of you don’t win because you can’t let go of fear, comfort, laziness, or childhood attachments.
- Jordan Hoechlin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The suffering was over; the killing and bloodshed had stopped. Mind you, the poverty—even there, in the richest neighborhood of Kabul—was shocking: the children barefoot, their wounds and scars evidence of deprivation and the brutal past. But while their faces showed their malnourishment, their eyes glimmered with hope for a better future
- Sima Samar
Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
... People with good intentions are like rays of sunshine on a cloudy day – they have this magical ability to see the silver lining in every situation. It's like they're wearing rose-colored glasses, seeing the world through a lens of positivity and hope...
- Zahra Jamal
Day To Day Life: the complexities of day-to-day life, exploring the philosophical aspects of the contradictions within our minds as human beings and the paradoxes evident in our actions.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She was like a butterfly not yet free from its cocoon, its beautiful wings still curled up. She was full of something he felt he'd lost. Hope. The thrill of living.
- Ruth Druart
While Paris Slept
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Prayer is where I acknowledge a battle that I can’t win by embracing a God Who can’t lose.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was definitely saying something. That we could become something magnificent, or at least interesting. That we began as we still are now, child geniuses. That there is no other home for us than here. That we will cope no matter how stupid things get. That all couples are odd couples. That the only catastrophe that can't be undone is extinction. That we can make a good place. That people can take their fate in their hands. That there is no such thing as fate.
- Kim Stanley Robinson
The Ministry for the Future
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Faith does not have a backup plan.
- G.W. Bill Elliott Jr
It's Gonna Zorple: When we don't understand God's warnings.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I take a deep breath. I can do this. It won’t be like when I tried confessing to Raymond at last year’s school fair and got caught in the cotton candy machine’s vicious pink web. Or, like freshman year, when I gave Toby a valentine that caught on fire for no reason at all. I might always forget exactly what the boy I dream about every night looks like the moment I wake up, but this time is different.
- C.J. Aralore
Gravity’s Fire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life comes to us unbridled; shall we hide?
Or will we, through the pleasure and the pain,
embrace the greatest heights we can attain
and smile upon the world with hearts flung wide?
- Susan Noyes Anderson
His Children
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don’t worry if the flowers pass, I’ll be right there to plant you more
- Liana Cincotti
Picking Daisies on Sundays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament”—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why does it matter, to re-find hope,
to regain hopefulness,
again and again,
in spite of loss, pain, grief--
even devastation?

Because, my love, hope is a feeling, and
how we feel about the world defines us,
defines our reality, our experience of our reality,
how we treat those around us
and ourselves.
- Shellen Lubin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope alone cannot create outcomes
but having hope affects outcomes.
Proceeding with hope
makes more things possible,
may just be what gets you up and out the door,
making anything possible at all.

But hope is an illusion, no?
Yes, my love,
but no more than fear and worry.
They are all illusions because they are all about the future,
and we cannot know the future.

But ...
hope is an illusion that opens us up, inspires joy,
reminds us of possibility,
gets us through trial and tribulation more easily
(like singing in the rhythm of a labor-intensive task
makes it easier to keep on going).
Hope
leads us to more, better, greater things--
maybe not the ideal, the fantasy, even the very thing you hope for--
but more, better, greater
than would otherwise be.
- Shellen Lubin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is bubbling
in the ocean of our collective lives...

I can feel the hope bubbling inside,
popping little pockets of air
rising to the surface.

I try to suppress them--
too soon, unsure, can't afford to risk--
but why?
And why would I want to?
Those bubbles pop joy into the air,
spring action to life,
and they feel so good,
massaging the soul.
- Shellen Lubin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
- Thomas Moore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He had said of me, ‘You are fated to be life’s passive participant,’ but I wrestled fate to the ground and suffocated its’ fortune. And yet, his laughter still mocks me, for though the earth has been my stepping stone, only here at the oceans’ side do I feel at ease. Only in your stillness do I find rest.
I am a waning bird
encased in a glass sphere;
I cannot see my prison,
and my cries no one can hear.
- Craig Froman
An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Believing is halfway to achieving.
- Vitor M.C. Rodrigues
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Grief is not an attractive part of life. No one wants to relive it or get a selfie of their grief experience. But suffering (going through) the grieving process made me the conqueror I am today.
- Ron Acosta
Unstoppable Grace: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Write a letter to your vigilante super-hero within and tell them what you want them to do.

Then, throw it up and hope it manifests. Then, remember, provisions take on many forms and it could be the reason you don't have a vigilante super-hero.

Vengeance is mine, says the lord.
- Niedria D. Kenny
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But we were essentially both going through the same thing, and as long as we stayed strong, it would happen eventually, right? For some reason, life had just thrown everything at us, one thing after another. We needed to remain positive; we were going to get the house of our dreams and start building a family, just like we'd wanted.
- Philip Anthony Smith
The Woman He Left Behind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That little faith of yours can bring dead dreams and visions back to life. Trust me, faith can help you develop wings and soar high. With faith, you can see tomorrow today and listen to your future like it's today's episode.
- Luckson T Mabade
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are tears that blind us and tears that open our eyes. I don't need these eyes; they're too blind to see. But just because I am blind and unable to perceive beauty doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We often don't realize how much of our joy and interest in life comes through our eyes until we have to live without them. Part of that joy is that our eyes can choose where to look, but our minds can't always choose what to think or remember. Over time, our consciousness becomes steeped in the salt of our tears, and we slowly grow sad and lose hope. Perhaps one day, far from now, I will believe again, and when that day comes, I will write to you and see if you respond.
- Rolf van der Wind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This hope might have appeared to me like a cloud the size of a man’s fist in a vast open sky, in the middle of the desert, in the middle of a drought …
But there was rain in that cloud.
- Jonah Priour
Praying the Word of Grace: The Revival of a Grieving Father's Soul Through the Simple Practice of Scripture-Based Prayer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The river was like a bit of string, following her through time and place, anchoring her here – to a village that she hated with all her heart – but also moving her along.
- Reem Gaafar
A Mouth Full of Salt
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most of you don’t win because you can’t let go of fear, comfort, laziness, or childhood attachments.
- Jordan Hoechlin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The suffering was over; the killing and bloodshed had stopped. Mind you, the poverty—even there, in the richest neighborhood of Kabul—was shocking: the children barefoot, their wounds and scars evidence of deprivation and the brutal past. But while their faces showed their malnourishment, their eyes glimmered with hope for a better future
- Sima Samar
Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
... People with good intentions are like rays of sunshine on a cloudy day – they have this magical ability to see the silver lining in every situation. It's like they're wearing rose-colored glasses, seeing the world through a lens of positivity and hope...
- Zahra Jamal
Day To Day Life: the complexities of day-to-day life, exploring the philosophical aspects of the contradictions within our minds as human beings and the paradoxes evident in our actions.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She was like a butterfly not yet free from its cocoon, its beautiful wings still curled up. She was full of something he felt he'd lost. Hope. The thrill of living.
- Ruth Druart
While Paris Slept
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Prayer is where I acknowledge a battle that I can’t win by embracing a God Who can’t lose.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was definitely saying something. That we could become something magnificent, or at least interesting. That we began as we still are now, child geniuses. That there is no other home for us than here. That we will cope no matter how stupid things get. That all couples are odd couples. That the only catastrophe that can't be undone is extinction. That we can make a good place. That people can take their fate in their hands. That there is no such thing as fate.
- Kim Stanley Robinson
The Ministry for the Future
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Faith does not have a backup plan.
- G.W. Bill Elliott Jr
It's Gonna Zorple: When we don't understand God's warnings.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I take a deep breath. I can do this. It won’t be like when I tried confessing to Raymond at last year’s school fair and got caught in the cotton candy machine’s vicious pink web. Or, like freshman year, when I gave Toby a valentine that caught on fire for no reason at all. I might always forget exactly what the boy I dream about every night looks like the moment I wake up, but this time is different.
- C.J. Aralore
Gravity’s Fire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life comes to us unbridled; shall we hide?
Or will we, through the pleasure and the pain,
embrace the greatest heights we can attain
and smile upon the world with hearts flung wide?
- Susan Noyes Anderson
His Children
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don’t worry if the flowers pass, I’ll be right there to plant you more
- Liana Cincotti
Picking Daisies on Sundays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament”—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why does it matter, to re-find hope,
to regain hopefulness,
again and again,
in spite of loss, pain, grief--
even devastation?

Because, my love, hope is a feeling, and
how we feel about the world defines us,
defines our reality, our experience of our reality,
how we treat those around us
and ourselves.
- Shellen Lubin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope alone cannot create outcomes
but having hope affects outcomes.
Proceeding with hope
makes more things possible,
may just be what gets you up and out the door,
making anything possible at all.

But hope is an illusion, no?
Yes, my love,
but no more than fear and worry.
They are all illusions because they are all about the future,
and we cannot know the future.

But ...
hope is an illusion that opens us up, inspires joy,
reminds us of possibility,
gets us through trial and tribulation more easily
(like singing in the rhythm of a labor-intensive task
makes it easier to keep on going).
Hope
leads us to more, better, greater things--
maybe not the ideal, the fantasy, even the very thing you hope for--
but more, better, greater
than would otherwise be.
- Shellen Lubin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is bubbling
in the ocean of our collective lives...

I can feel the hope bubbling inside,
popping little pockets of air
rising to the surface.

I try to suppress them--
too soon, unsure, can't afford to risk--
but why?
And why would I want to?
Those bubbles pop joy into the air,
spring action to life,
and they feel so good,
massaging the soul.
- Shellen Lubin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
- Thomas Moore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He had said of me, ‘You are fated to be life’s passive participant,’ but I wrestled fate to the ground and suffocated its’ fortune. And yet, his laughter still mocks me, for though the earth has been my stepping stone, only here at the oceans’ side do I feel at ease. Only in your stillness do I find rest.
I am a waning bird
encased in a glass sphere;
I cannot see my prison,
and my cries no one can hear.
- Craig Froman
An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Believing is halfway to achieving.
- Vitor M.C. Rodrigues
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Grief is not an attractive part of life. No one wants to relive it or get a selfie of their grief experience. But suffering (going through) the grieving process made me the conqueror I am today.
- Ron Acosta
Unstoppable Grace: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Write a letter to your vigilante super-hero within and tell them what you want them to do.

Then, throw it up and hope it manifests. Then, remember, provisions take on many forms and it could be the reason you don't have a vigilante super-hero.

Vengeance is mine, says the lord.
- Niedria D. Kenny
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But we were essentially both going through the same thing, and as long as we stayed strong, it would happen eventually, right? For some reason, life had just thrown everything at us, one thing after another. We needed to remain positive; we were going to get the house of our dreams and start building a family, just like we'd wanted.
- Philip Anthony Smith
The Woman He Left Behind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That little faith of yours can bring dead dreams and visions back to life. Trust me, faith can help you develop wings and soar high. With faith, you can see tomorrow today and listen to your future like it's today's episode.
- Luckson T Mabade
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are tears that blind us and tears that open our eyes. I don't need these eyes; they're too blind to see. But just because I am blind and unable to perceive beauty doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We often don't realize how much of our joy and interest in life comes through our eyes until we have to live without them. Part of that joy is that our eyes can choose where to look, but our minds can't always choose what to think or remember. Over time, our consciousness becomes steeped in the salt of our tears, and we slowly grow sad and lose hope. Perhaps one day, far from now, I will believe again, and when that day comes, I will write to you and see if you respond.
- Rolf van der Wind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This hope might have appeared to me like a cloud the size of a man’s fist in a vast open sky, in the middle of the desert, in the middle of a drought …
But there was rain in that cloud.
- Jonah Priour
Praying the Word of Grace: The Revival of a Grieving Father's Soul Through the Simple Practice of Scripture-Based Prayer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The river was like a bit of string, following her through time and place, anchoring her here – to a village that she hated with all her heart – but also moving her along.
- Reem Gaafar
A Mouth Full of Salt
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most of you don’t win because you can’t let go of fear, comfort, laziness, or childhood attachments.
- Jordan Hoechlin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The suffering was over; the killing and bloodshed had stopped. Mind you, the poverty—even there, in the richest neighborhood of Kabul—was shocking: the children barefoot, their wounds and scars evidence of deprivation and the brutal past. But while their faces showed their malnourishment, their eyes glimmered with hope for a better future
- Sima Samar
Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
... People with good intentions are like rays of sunshine on a cloudy day – they have this magical ability to see the silver lining in every situation. It's like they're wearing rose-colored glasses, seeing the world through a lens of positivity and hope...
- Zahra Jamal
Day To Day Life: the complexities of day-to-day life, exploring the philosophical aspects of the contradictions within our minds as human beings and the paradoxes evident in our actions.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She was like a butterfly not yet free from its cocoon, its beautiful wings still curled up. She was full of something he felt he'd lost. Hope. The thrill of living.
- Ruth Druart
While Paris Slept
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Prayer is where I acknowledge a battle that I can’t win by embracing a God Who can’t lose.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was definitely saying something. That we could become something magnificent, or at least interesting. That we began as we still are now, child geniuses. That there is no other home for us than here. That we will cope no matter how stupid things get. That all couples are odd couples. That the only catastrophe that can't be undone is extinction. That we can make a good place. That people can take their fate in their hands. That there is no such thing as fate.
- Kim Stanley Robinson
The Ministry for the Future
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Faith does not have a backup plan.
- G.W. Bill Elliott Jr
It's Gonna Zorple: When we don't understand God's warnings.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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