Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.

I'm excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come.

The future is something I'm looking forward to.

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

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...

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Maybe it was just me shorting myself to hedge my expectations. As a fan, I was excited about the project. If you look at the body of work for the people involved, I was excited about the project, but I didn't really know. There were people saying, "I think we're going to be part of something huge."

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

We think of our future as anticipated memories.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is going to be better than today. We just all deal with it in a different way.

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.

If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

People are optimistic about the future.