Quotes for the Journey: Hope What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. Emil Brunner

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.        -Orison Swett Marden     Give humanity hope and it will dare and suffer joyfully, not counting the cost -- hope with laughter on her banner and on her face the fresh beauty of morning.        -John Elof Boodin      If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed.  But we are more than logical.  We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.         -Jacques Cousteau     When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation.  Trust is the only way we're going to make it through and be a part of God's marvelous plan for His child.        -Barbara Johnson     If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of the human become in its long journey toward the stars?         -Gilbert Keith Chesterton      Take from people their wealth, and you hinder them; take from them their purpose, and you slow them down.  But take from them their hope, and you stop them.  They can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for awhile.  But they will not go on without hope.        -C. Neil Strait      Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.      -Martin Luther

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.         -Vaclav Havel

Honor begets honor, trust begets trust, faith begets faith, and hope is the mainspring of life.        -Henry L. Stimson

Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear; rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He is your keeper.  He has kept you hitherto. Do you but hold fast to his dear hand, and he will lead you safely through all things; and, when you cannot stand, he will bear you in his arms. Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow. Our Father will either shield you from suffering, or he will give you strength to bear it.        -St. Francis of Sales

Hope is a vigorous principle. . . it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a person to do his or her utmost.         -Jeremy Collier

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment.       -William Penn

Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good.  It is characteristic of all living beings.  Birds, beasts, and people are always alert and striving for the fulfillment of their hungers.  They are impelled forward in a ceaseless quest for satisfaction.  The antennae of insects relentlessly explore and feel their way ahead, and the imagination of humans functions in the same manner, ranging through wide areas and far futures in search of the good which hope ever promises.        -Edward S. Ames

Without hope people are only half alive.  With hope they dream and think and work.        -Charles Sawyer

Hope is like a road in the country; there never was a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.         -Lin Yutang

Humans are, properly speaking, based upon hope, we have no other possession but hope; this world of ours is emphatically the place of hope.        -Thomas Carlyle

The longest day must have its close--the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.  An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.        -Harriet Beecher Stowe

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.       -Samuel Johnson

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing--but we all do and we call it Hope.        -Edgar Watson Howe

All human wisdom is summed up in two words--wait and hope.       -Alexander Dumas

"Hope" is the thing with feathers-- That perches in the soul-- And sings the tunes without the words-- And never stops--at all. Emily Dickinson

I have always felt that the moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.  No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen.  And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot.  The possibility is always there.         -Monica Baldwin

There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens. Andre Gide We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that--in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it--you go right on wanting it.        -Norman Vincent Peale

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.        -Phillips Brooks

The well-known maxim, "While there is life there is hope," has a deeper meaning in reverse:  "While there is hope there is life."    Hope comes first, life follows.  Hope gives power to life.  Hope rouses life to continue, to expand, to grow, to reach out, to go on.    Hope sees a light where there isn't any.    Hope lights candles in millions of despairing hearts.    Hope is the miracle medicine of the mind.  It inspires the will to live.  Hope is the physician's strongest ally.    Hope is our shield and buckler against defeat.    "Hope," wrote Alexander Pope, "springs eternal in the human breast."  And as long as it does we will triumph and move forward.    Hope never sounds retreat.  Hope keeps the banners flying.    Hope revives ideals, renews dreams, revitalizes visions.    Hope scales the peak, wrestles with the impossible, achieves the highest aim.    "The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope."  As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless. Wilferd A. Peterson

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.        -Jean Kerr

The word which God has written on the brow of every person is hope.       -Victor Hugo

Hope works in these ways:  it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness."       - unattributed

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope.  That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon.  They are the hidden ingredients of any prescription.       -Norman Cousins

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.        -Vincent McNabb

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. . . . If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.       - Erik H. Erikson

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.        -Menander

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.       -William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.       -Thomas Fuller

It is certainly wrong to despair; and if despair is wrong, hope is right.       -John Lubbock

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.        -Samuel Johnson

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.  Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.       -Helen Keller

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.        -Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.       -Sir Francis Bacon

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.       -George Iles

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.       -Bernie S. Siegel

Hope is the parent of faith.       -C.A. Bartol

The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.       -Harvey Milk

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.       -John F. Kennedy

Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.       -George Weinberg

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.       -Baruch Spinoza

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter.  Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.       -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hope, like the gleaming candle's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. Oliver Goldsmith

Hope and new beginnings are fresh every morning.  It is not necessary to wait for a circumstance to bring hope.  Hope, real hope, comes when we lay down our own ideas and plans. . . . our mind, will, and emotions. . .before God as a hand of cards dealt and say to him, “How would YOU play them?”       -Laura Lewis Lanier

Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.       -Karl Menninger

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.  Hope is the dream of a waking person.       -Pliny the Elder

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.       -Martin Luther King, Jr.

The hopeful person sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.       -Orison Swett Marden

Hope is like the sun which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.       -Samuel Smiles

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.  It gives human beings a sense of destination and the energy to get started.       -Norman Cousins

Every blade of grass, each leaf, each separate floret and petal, is an inscription speaking of hope.       -Richard Jefferies

We all have hope.  Sometimes, oddly enough, we don't want to admit it--to others or to ourselves--but no matter how bad things get in our lives, we have hope.  It's one of the greatest gifts that we've been given, for out of hope come all of our scientific and medical advances -- why even start trying something new if there's no hope for a successful outcome?  Hope is what keeps us going on those dark, dark nights in our lives when it seems as if the sun never again will shine, but we have to give hope its due; we have to let its light shine in our lives if it's to do any good.  We have to tell ourselves that things will get better, that life will radiate its beauty in our lives once more, if we but let it. Hope never dies in us, yet often we cover its light, or we cover our ears so that we won't hear it sing its song.  But that's like turning off a lamp when we most need its light, or shutting the door on a best friend when we most need company.  We were created to be hopeful creatures, to look at the possibilities in the world and in ourselves, yet many of us aren't willing to do so, and we deny that there's even hope in the world, and once we deny the existence of hope, we start living dull, lightless lives that serve no one -- ourselves or those who surround us.  To live is to hope, and to hope is to live. Personally, I remember that even during my darkest depressions, I've always felt the flame of hope, no matter how tiny it seemed to be.  The problem was that all of the negative thoughts that were my depression kept arguing against the hope, calling it stupid, telling me that it was unrealistic and unjustified.  The hope inside of me was like the one person who is willing to stand up with a voice of reason against a mob, only to be attacked by that mob and left for dead.  Thankfully, it didn't die, or I might have. When the voice of hope speaks inside of you, listen closely.  The voice of hope is the voice of God, the voice of all the wonderful people with whom we share this world, the voice of truth and reality.  It's those other voices inside of you, the voices of despair and condemnation and hopelessness, that are the liars.  Call them what they are, and give them no credence.  It's hope that springs eternal.  These other things are temporary parts of ourselves that we have to learn to reject, like someone renting our house who not only isn't paying their rent, but who's destroying the house.  To restore peace and equilibrium, we have to get rid of the renter and restore the hope of better days to come. tdw

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