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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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Forgiveness is the secret to freedom, and freedom is the secret of a life well-lived.
- Kristina Wandzilak
The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter's Worst Nightmare
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It was such a small thing. Just a stranger on the internet, sending her a frog. But somehow, it felt like the first step toward something better.
- Arabella Sveinsdottir
Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
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But dreams are dreams."
"Oh no, no," he said, and smiled at me. "Dreams are so much more than that. They are visions of the future, they are whispers of our desires, they are hope. We cannot and we must not live without dreams, Clara.
- Patti Callahan Henry
The Story She Left Behind
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The darkness was not gone forever. Likely enough it would take days, weeks, perhaps even months or years to fully be freed. Probably it would always be near; probably she would always be vulnerable to its attack.
Yet the Eternal who lit her darkness in one way could also in another. He could sustain her in every aspect. He would always be there, ready and able to help. Ever loving.
- Katja H. Labonté
A Noble Comfort: A Blue Bird Retelling
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The Eternal was not defeated. The evil was not winning against him. He was still in control. ‘Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further.’ Like the master creator that he was, he knew how this tale would unroll. The perfect ending was not only thought of; it was coming. Nothing could change it. The villains could not surprise him by destroying a hero or putting up a greater fight than he expected. The story would draw to a close at the right time, and the climax was already a guaranteed victory.
The Eternal was not crushed or even slightly inconvenienced. He was winning. The evil might think it was successful, but its downfall was already irreversible.
The Almighty had already won the victory.
- Katja H. Labonté
A Noble Comfort: A Blue Bird Retelling
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I hoped for a rose and got lilies.
I hoped for the sun and got rain.
I hoped for a cat and got puppies.
I hoped for Brazil and got Spain.

I hoped for a raise and got transferred.
I hoped for northwest and got south.
I hoped for ice cream and got yogurt.
I hoped for a kiss on the mouth.

I hoped for more time and got late fees.
I hoped for a cruise, got a flight.
I hoped for Poseidon, got Hades.
I hoped for long days over nights.

You may wonder why I keep hoping,
As fruitless as it seems to be.
But hope is a bow, not an arrow.
Its release depends much upon me.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
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I HOPE it will happen when I am unsure that it will but I know that it can.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
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Patient endurance and self-discipline mean we submit to the present moment as it is, not as we would like it to be.
- Amos Smith
Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers
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Even when loved ones seem distant, the heart finds a way to bridge the gap.
- Mr. Bilal Mukhtar
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Hope is a seed we plant, the wings we grow. If we ever want to see olive trees return to Palestine- if we ever want to see our trees and our people return- we must plant this hope. Across Gaza, and across the world.
- Fatimah A. Bass
Where the Olive Trees Return: by Fatimah A. Bass
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Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph. That first blush in the sky is all the hope of the world distilled into light. I watch the dark fade, and say to myself, “Okay, I’m still here,” and the more sunrises I see, the more I feel as if I’ll live to see another twenty thousand.
- Dean Koontz
The Other Emily
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A glimmer of hope is better than none at all.
- Brandon Mull
Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
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He wished for her life to be filled with more opportunities than he had ever had. (Story: Behind the Grand Doors of Paradise)
- Scarlet Ibis James
Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire
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Hope is a grand thing, and having heroes is essential to human aspiration. That is part of why I tell these stories. That said, you do need to learn to separate the story—and what it has done to you—from the individual who prompted it. Art—and all stories are art, even the ones about real people—is about what it does to you.

The true hero is the one in your mind, the representation of an ideal that makes you a better person. The individual who inspired it, well, they’re like the book on the table or the art on the wall. A vessel. A syringe full of transformational aspiration. Don’t force people to live up to your dreams of who they might be.
- Brandon Sanderson
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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The hope was to end neurodivergent oppression everywhere by redesigning the world in ways that would cultivate neurodivergent thriving.
- Robert Chapman
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Sometimes it’s my sense that the mountains in our lives don’t wish to repel us through our fear of their peaks and crevices. Rather, they present us with the opportunity to overcome that fear by inviting us to scale their peaks, forge their crevices, and to suddenly find ourselves walking through the listless valley that lays on the other side of a range that we never thought ourselves capable of traversing.
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Living under God’s grace means walking in the assurance that He will preserve and sustain you, no matter the struggle.
- Manuela Izunwa
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No more problems. Just free. Run in a field with my hair down kind of free.
- Robyn Chalmers
A Whiff of Scandal
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It is often subtle, but you know it when you feel it. Like when 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' effortlessly goes up a whole octave within the word 'somewhere', jumping clean over seven natural keys - an actual musical rainbow - before landing on the eighth.
- Matt Haig*
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I join Rosie in staring at her tiny body and I will closed-off parts or myself to open. Each time I come here I wait for a rush of feeling. It never comes, but I can’t let go of the hope that one day it will.
- Angela Chadwick
XX
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Campus

Shirt sleeves half out of the jeans,
Eyes grounding the green while looking
All around for Christmas nights.

Blue sounds of church bells ringing
On morning streets and alleys
Are rewritten in archways beneath.

The campus is clear of recitation,
And the steps lead to none other than doors
That keep opening to New Year’s hope.
- Laura Chouette
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The sun has gone down yet to find the feast of stars is to sense the freedom of soul.
- Jayita Bhattacharjee
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I no longer thought about the fire under us and the endless cold above us, nor about how thin this crust is which divides the fiery porridge from outer space. I only felt that the night was dark and full of life, of snails and moths, of growing plants, and I knew that there were trout and frogs in the brook. Sometimes the frogs here croak all night long, in a great chorus.
There are bats and owls, and deer roam the neighboring forests.
The flowers have closed. From the hospital there was not a sound. All was silence.
Then a great golden tone rose through the night, and it was followed by new tones. The nightingale had begun, and now filled the world with its abnormal voice.
- Jens Bjørneboe
Kruttårnet
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I remember a girl with a vision who knew she was built for great things. I remember a girl with bright eyes who would laugh at any challenge life dared to throw her way. That girl is still inside you, but you’ve got to let her live again.
- Issabelle Perry
May We Make Them Proud
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Forgiveness is the secret to freedom, and freedom is the secret of a life well-lived.
- Kristina Wandzilak
The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter's Worst Nightmare
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was such a small thing. Just a stranger on the internet, sending her a frog. But somehow, it felt like the first step toward something better.
- Arabella Sveinsdottir
Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But dreams are dreams."
"Oh no, no," he said, and smiled at me. "Dreams are so much more than that. They are visions of the future, they are whispers of our desires, they are hope. We cannot and we must not live without dreams, Clara.
- Patti Callahan Henry
The Story She Left Behind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The darkness was not gone forever. Likely enough it would take days, weeks, perhaps even months or years to fully be freed. Probably it would always be near; probably she would always be vulnerable to its attack.
Yet the Eternal who lit her darkness in one way could also in another. He could sustain her in every aspect. He would always be there, ready and able to help. Ever loving.
- Katja H. Labonté
A Noble Comfort: A Blue Bird Retelling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Eternal was not defeated. The evil was not winning against him. He was still in control. ‘Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further.’ Like the master creator that he was, he knew how this tale would unroll. The perfect ending was not only thought of; it was coming. Nothing could change it. The villains could not surprise him by destroying a hero or putting up a greater fight than he expected. The story would draw to a close at the right time, and the climax was already a guaranteed victory.
The Eternal was not crushed or even slightly inconvenienced. He was winning. The evil might think it was successful, but its downfall was already irreversible.
The Almighty had already won the victory.
- Katja H. Labonté
A Noble Comfort: A Blue Bird Retelling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I hoped for a rose and got lilies.
I hoped for the sun and got rain.
I hoped for a cat and got puppies.
I hoped for Brazil and got Spain.

I hoped for a raise and got transferred.
I hoped for northwest and got south.
I hoped for ice cream and got yogurt.
I hoped for a kiss on the mouth.

I hoped for more time and got late fees.
I hoped for a cruise, got a flight.
I hoped for Poseidon, got Hades.
I hoped for long days over nights.

You may wonder why I keep hoping,
As fruitless as it seems to be.
But hope is a bow, not an arrow.
Its release depends much upon me.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I HOPE it will happen when I am unsure that it will but I know that it can.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Patient endurance and self-discipline mean we submit to the present moment as it is, not as we would like it to be.
- Amos Smith
Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Even when loved ones seem distant, the heart finds a way to bridge the gap.
- Mr. Bilal Mukhtar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is a seed we plant, the wings we grow. If we ever want to see olive trees return to Palestine- if we ever want to see our trees and our people return- we must plant this hope. Across Gaza, and across the world.
- Fatimah A. Bass
Where the Olive Trees Return: by Fatimah A. Bass
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph. That first blush in the sky is all the hope of the world distilled into light. I watch the dark fade, and say to myself, “Okay, I’m still here,” and the more sunrises I see, the more I feel as if I’ll live to see another twenty thousand.
- Dean Koontz
The Other Emily
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A glimmer of hope is better than none at all.
- Brandon Mull
Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He wished for her life to be filled with more opportunities than he had ever had. (Story: Behind the Grand Doors of Paradise)
- Scarlet Ibis James
Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is a grand thing, and having heroes is essential to human aspiration. That is part of why I tell these stories. That said, you do need to learn to separate the story—and what it has done to you—from the individual who prompted it. Art—and all stories are art, even the ones about real people—is about what it does to you.

The true hero is the one in your mind, the representation of an ideal that makes you a better person. The individual who inspired it, well, they’re like the book on the table or the art on the wall. A vessel. A syringe full of transformational aspiration. Don’t force people to live up to your dreams of who they might be.
- Brandon Sanderson
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The hope was to end neurodivergent oppression everywhere by redesigning the world in ways that would cultivate neurodivergent thriving.
- Robert Chapman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes it’s my sense that the mountains in our lives don’t wish to repel us through our fear of their peaks and crevices. Rather, they present us with the opportunity to overcome that fear by inviting us to scale their peaks, forge their crevices, and to suddenly find ourselves walking through the listless valley that lays on the other side of a range that we never thought ourselves capable of traversing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Living under God’s grace means walking in the assurance that He will preserve and sustain you, no matter the struggle.
- Manuela Izunwa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No more problems. Just free. Run in a field with my hair down kind of free.
- Robyn Chalmers
A Whiff of Scandal
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is often subtle, but you know it when you feel it. Like when 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' effortlessly goes up a whole octave within the word 'somewhere', jumping clean over seven natural keys - an actual musical rainbow - before landing on the eighth.
- Matt Haig*
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I join Rosie in staring at her tiny body and I will closed-off parts or myself to open. Each time I come here I wait for a rush of feeling. It never comes, but I can’t let go of the hope that one day it will.
- Angela Chadwick
XX
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Campus

Shirt sleeves half out of the jeans,
Eyes grounding the green while looking
All around for Christmas nights.

Blue sounds of church bells ringing
On morning streets and alleys
Are rewritten in archways beneath.

The campus is clear of recitation,
And the steps lead to none other than doors
That keep opening to New Year’s hope.
- Laura Chouette
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The sun has gone down yet to find the feast of stars is to sense the freedom of soul.
- Jayita Bhattacharjee
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I no longer thought about the fire under us and the endless cold above us, nor about how thin this crust is which divides the fiery porridge from outer space. I only felt that the night was dark and full of life, of snails and moths, of growing plants, and I knew that there were trout and frogs in the brook. Sometimes the frogs here croak all night long, in a great chorus.
There are bats and owls, and deer roam the neighboring forests.
The flowers have closed. From the hospital there was not a sound. All was silence.
Then a great golden tone rose through the night, and it was followed by new tones. The nightingale had begun, and now filled the world with its abnormal voice.
- Jens Bjørneboe
Kruttårnet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I remember a girl with a vision who knew she was built for great things. I remember a girl with bright eyes who would laugh at any challenge life dared to throw her way. That girl is still inside you, but you’ve got to let her live again.
- Issabelle Perry
May We Make Them Proud
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Forgiveness is the secret to freedom, and freedom is the secret of a life well-lived.
- Kristina Wandzilak
The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter's Worst Nightmare
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was such a small thing. Just a stranger on the internet, sending her a frog. But somehow, it felt like the first step toward something better.
- Arabella Sveinsdottir
Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But dreams are dreams."
"Oh no, no," he said, and smiled at me. "Dreams are so much more than that. They are visions of the future, they are whispers of our desires, they are hope. We cannot and we must not live without dreams, Clara.
- Patti Callahan Henry
The Story She Left Behind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The darkness was not gone forever. Likely enough it would take days, weeks, perhaps even months or years to fully be freed. Probably it would always be near; probably she would always be vulnerable to its attack.
Yet the Eternal who lit her darkness in one way could also in another. He could sustain her in every aspect. He would always be there, ready and able to help. Ever loving.
- Katja H. Labonté
A Noble Comfort: A Blue Bird Retelling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Eternal was not defeated. The evil was not winning against him. He was still in control. ‘Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further.’ Like the master creator that he was, he knew how this tale would unroll. The perfect ending was not only thought of; it was coming. Nothing could change it. The villains could not surprise him by destroying a hero or putting up a greater fight than he expected. The story would draw to a close at the right time, and the climax was already a guaranteed victory.
The Eternal was not crushed or even slightly inconvenienced. He was winning. The evil might think it was successful, but its downfall was already irreversible.
The Almighty had already won the victory.
- Katja H. Labonté
A Noble Comfort: A Blue Bird Retelling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I hoped for a rose and got lilies.
I hoped for the sun and got rain.
I hoped for a cat and got puppies.
I hoped for Brazil and got Spain.

I hoped for a raise and got transferred.
I hoped for northwest and got south.
I hoped for ice cream and got yogurt.
I hoped for a kiss on the mouth.

I hoped for more time and got late fees.
I hoped for a cruise, got a flight.
I hoped for Poseidon, got Hades.
I hoped for long days over nights.

You may wonder why I keep hoping,
As fruitless as it seems to be.
But hope is a bow, not an arrow.
Its release depends much upon me.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I HOPE it will happen when I am unsure that it will but I know that it can.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Patient endurance and self-discipline mean we submit to the present moment as it is, not as we would like it to be.
- Amos Smith
Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Even when loved ones seem distant, the heart finds a way to bridge the gap.
- Mr. Bilal Mukhtar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is a seed we plant, the wings we grow. If we ever want to see olive trees return to Palestine- if we ever want to see our trees and our people return- we must plant this hope. Across Gaza, and across the world.
- Fatimah A. Bass
Where the Olive Trees Return: by Fatimah A. Bass
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph. That first blush in the sky is all the hope of the world distilled into light. I watch the dark fade, and say to myself, “Okay, I’m still here,” and the more sunrises I see, the more I feel as if I’ll live to see another twenty thousand.
- Dean Koontz
The Other Emily
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A glimmer of hope is better than none at all.
- Brandon Mull
Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He wished for her life to be filled with more opportunities than he had ever had. (Story: Behind the Grand Doors of Paradise)
- Scarlet Ibis James
Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is a grand thing, and having heroes is essential to human aspiration. That is part of why I tell these stories. That said, you do need to learn to separate the story—and what it has done to you—from the individual who prompted it. Art—and all stories are art, even the ones about real people—is about what it does to you.

The true hero is the one in your mind, the representation of an ideal that makes you a better person. The individual who inspired it, well, they’re like the book on the table or the art on the wall. A vessel. A syringe full of transformational aspiration. Don’t force people to live up to your dreams of who they might be.
- Brandon Sanderson
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The hope was to end neurodivergent oppression everywhere by redesigning the world in ways that would cultivate neurodivergent thriving.
- Robert Chapman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes it’s my sense that the mountains in our lives don’t wish to repel us through our fear of their peaks and crevices. Rather, they present us with the opportunity to overcome that fear by inviting us to scale their peaks, forge their crevices, and to suddenly find ourselves walking through the listless valley that lays on the other side of a range that we never thought ourselves capable of traversing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Living under God’s grace means walking in the assurance that He will preserve and sustain you, no matter the struggle.
- Manuela Izunwa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No more problems. Just free. Run in a field with my hair down kind of free.
- Robyn Chalmers
A Whiff of Scandal
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is often subtle, but you know it when you feel it. Like when 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' effortlessly goes up a whole octave within the word 'somewhere', jumping clean over seven natural keys - an actual musical rainbow - before landing on the eighth.
- Matt Haig*
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I join Rosie in staring at her tiny body and I will closed-off parts or myself to open. Each time I come here I wait for a rush of feeling. It never comes, but I can’t let go of the hope that one day it will.
- Angela Chadwick
XX
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Campus

Shirt sleeves half out of the jeans,
Eyes grounding the green while looking
All around for Christmas nights.

Blue sounds of church bells ringing
On morning streets and alleys
Are rewritten in archways beneath.

The campus is clear of recitation,
And the steps lead to none other than doors
That keep opening to New Year’s hope.
- Laura Chouette
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The sun has gone down yet to find the feast of stars is to sense the freedom of soul.
- Jayita Bhattacharjee
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I no longer thought about the fire under us and the endless cold above us, nor about how thin this crust is which divides the fiery porridge from outer space. I only felt that the night was dark and full of life, of snails and moths, of growing plants, and I knew that there were trout and frogs in the brook. Sometimes the frogs here croak all night long, in a great chorus.
There are bats and owls, and deer roam the neighboring forests.
The flowers have closed. From the hospital there was not a sound. All was silence.
Then a great golden tone rose through the night, and it was followed by new tones. The nightingale had begun, and now filled the world with its abnormal voice.
- Jens Bjørneboe
Kruttårnet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I remember a girl with a vision who knew she was built for great things. I remember a girl with bright eyes who would laugh at any challenge life dared to throw her way. That girl is still inside you, but you’ve got to let her live again.
- Issabelle Perry
May We Make Them Proud
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