Alice Hoffman Quotes

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.

Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teachers that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

I think the deepest belief I have . . . is that love really is the answer to all problems.

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

Faith and optimism come from love.

I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

When I look around me, I can't help having faith.

So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells.

I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith.

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

I have never been a cynical person.

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.

It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.