John Twelve Hawks Quotes

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless

It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

In this life, anything can happen - and what can help bring it to pass is Hope

All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family...

She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.

I encourage you to accept that you may not be able to see a path right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

"Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

Something will turn up.

Always have something to look forward to.

In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.

Hope is universal.

I would say I'm cautiously optimistic.

If your worst fear can come true, and everything can still be OK, then there's really not much to fear at all.

There's pros and cons to everything, and I choose to look at the positives.

We should be optimistic about the future even though we have a complicated present.

I am not doomed.

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

I try to take life as it comes, and just hope it keeps coming.

Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)