Quotes about hopes

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

Where did it all begin? These are simple questions, but just as the humid summer air that can be felt but not touched, the answers are elusive.

Now, as an adult, my hopes for the future were simple: I wanted to be alone, and to be surrounded by flowers. It seemed, finally, that I might get exactly what I wanted.

Nothing outside of yourself can prevent you from achieving all of your hopes, dreams and desires….

I presented my feminine side with flowers. She cutthe stems and placed them gently down my throat.And these tu lips might soon eclipse your brightesthopes.

...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...

Through career fumbles and life changes, she supported me. Through shattered dreams and hopes almost-realized, she supported me too.

After he's gone Greer sits for a long time. She rests her head on her knees and weeps - not because she loved Blake and not because she's lost him. But because she did not care of herself. She knew Blake's nature the moment she met him, just as she knew the philandering fiancé. She knew them and she knew herself. Greer thinks of the story of the scorpion and the frog, and she knows she cannot blame these men for her messy life, they only did what she always knew they would do. No, this is not ab

I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curfew: my feet were hurting, my hair was slipping free from its pins, and my makeup was getting all smudged from sweat. I was unbelievably tired, undeniably depressed, and I just wanted charming.

In life we don't always get what we want; hopes and dreams get washed away so easily, hearts are broken, chances are missed, and we always seem to end up right back where we started.

I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky.

Different things drive me at different points in time. Hopes, the things you envision, and even things that pull you down" - Kunal Karan Kapoor

Take a moment and think of something small but significant that you've wanted for decades. Dream about it. Wish for it. Let the dreaming and wishing sink deeply into your being. Add some memories of disappointment just for a little flavor. At some point, over time, a wish can become too important, can become much bigger as a dream than it ever had a right to be.

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

Carry your wings of hope so high in the sky that there is no room left for disappointments.

My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. I looked at my love: that feeling which had been my master's --- which he had created; it shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it; it could not seek Mr Rochester's arms --- it could not

Every tomorrow is better because you opened your eyes, but still, memories from your past are meant to be shared and cherished

Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.

I wish upon a glimmering star,My hopes as distant and as far. So if this wish does not come true,I’m thankful for the few that do.

A man once believed he could fly—and he did. Another believed he could walk on the moon—and he did. Why not believe your wildest dreams can come true? Why not see the stars as reachable?

Why only gaze at the stars? Catch one!

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.

I wouldn't mindif life left me...winglessburnt to cindersripped by stormsscattered...like weedscelestially woundedwithout cherry blossomsto perish withbut I would crywith head held in my handsif it left me...unfulfilled.

I've heard fate talked of. It's not a word I use. I think we make our own choices. I think how we live our lives is our own doing, and we cannot fully hope on dreams and stars. But dreams and stars can guide us, perhaps. And the heart's voice is a strong one. Always is.

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

He simply translated what was in LuLing's heart: her better intentions, her hopes.

After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.

Falling asleep with hopes and wishes that I rarely get to hold in my hand for long…go me. All I’ve got are memories and secrets.

Every day is a new day to hope, dream and try again.

Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.

Speak blessings, and write wishes. ~T.F. Hodge

Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes.

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Be joyful and expect a great future.

Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

Each year's regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.

My grandfather was a duck trapperHe could do it with just dragnets and ropesMy grandmother could sew new dresses out of old clothI don't know if they had any dreams or hopesI had 'em once though, I suppose, to go alongWith all the ring-dancin' Christmas carols on all of the Christmas evesI left all my dreams and hopesBuried under tobacco leaves

You can choose to stay strong and keep moving on or you can run, and in the end still make a U-turn..

Feeling hopeless? But are you even there yet?

Hope is the breath that keep your dreams alive. Don’t stop breathing!.

Hopelessness makes you a futile wanderer. Hope makes your life a wonder

Hopelessness is endless, the more you search for it, the more you find it

When you decide to face your life squarely, you stop moving round in circles.

Hopelessness is only a puzzle, and your task is to find hope

To hope is a long run but hopelessness is wrongdoing to your soul.

Hope keeps dreams alive through the prayers of those who never give up. They are able to pursue their dreams with confidence and reach their goals.“For every one that asks receives, and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.” Matthew 7:8 words of Jesus Christ

Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be.

Hope is when against all odds a tiny flame keeps burning for the possibility.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

I always entertain great hopes.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in travel we attain them all. Then we have our day of glory, when all our dreams come true, when we can be anything we like, as long as we like, and, when we are tired of it, pull up stakes and move on. Travel -- the solitude of the mountains, the emptiness of the desert, the delicacy of t

If you love something, you find a way to have it in your life. Opposers may take away your means and tools, but you simply turn to crude replacements, fashioning them from scraps if necessary. Threats only make you steal moments of secrecy to satisfy your love. And if it means but a morsel here and there, you accept each crumb gladly because nothing else can even begin to satisfy your hunger.

The bigger the dream, the better the story.

Is safety the ‘dream’ that will kill all of my other ‘dreams?’ For the truth is, no ‘real’ dream is safe.

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I wouldn't say that to a dying man.

The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the ‘impossible’ that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway.

Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.

If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.

Let me learn your interests and share them, tell me of your hopes and together we will attain them, and desire for nothing because as long as you're mine, if you should call forth the stars, I'll bring them down to you.

Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits?

Dreams aren't finish lines to be reached at the close of a race. They don't suddenly materialize, fulfilled, where the road ends. The entire journey is included in the dream―all of it from beginning to forevermore. You're on that journey right now; hence, you're living the dream. Enjoy it.

Maybe there is no such thing as success—a final destination where you arrive once and for all. Maybe existence is a never-ending journey of peaks and valleys and forever chasing dreams.

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.

Your future, hopes and dreams should never be tied down to anybody! The strength lies inside of you to decide at any moment your direction.

My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

Without solitude, we cannot fix the scattered pieces of our plans, hopes, wishes together.

Turns out there's more than one way to achieve your dreams.

When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.

If nightmares can come true, and sometimes they do... then so can our happiest dreams.

Life is a fairy tale that was written by hopes, dreams, and desires.

Falling from the sky like the rain, And I fly and sing like the little birds..., Movements that are not in vain, Everything has a life made of words.

The insinuation that without a female president women cannot pursue and achieve their dreams is not only false but recalls the ever-condenscending liberal attitude towards women: "We know what women want, even if they do not.

People in that robotic, drone-like state, walking the earth with no set mission other than to survive another day. Missing the glory of the day, missing the potential for beauty and magic that each moment brings. Missing the gift of life, to walk in the footsteps of the mundane.

It is a dangerous thing to bring a dream to life....I have watched my deepest, dearest hopes take shape, and I am not entirely sure I like the shape they have taken.

Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water.

Hope builds and creates dreams. Fear keep us firmly entrenched in the status quo

What life can you create when those activities spent “killing” or “wasting” time were put into the quest for a better you? What would your life be like if instead of “chilling and net flicks” you devoted time to wellness and thinking? A much better life awaits you with some simple choices, backed by intentional actions.

Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.