“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.”
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Hopeful Quotes — page 44 of 783
“When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you offyou just wait in the shade until they come around again.”
“I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of sticks, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for us each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to our load, before we are required to bear it.”
“God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.”
“God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.”
“I'm a living testimony that anything is possible.”
“I dwell in possibility.”
“The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.”
“May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.”
“Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.”
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
“One love, one heart, one destiny.”
“Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.”
“Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.”
“If you keep a clear vision for your future, it will pull you like a magnet through your toughest times.”
“Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.”
“Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.”
“One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.”
“I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.”
“The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine? You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine.”