Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Something will turn up.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Often, small things give me hope when big things feel so oppressively bleak.

I always like to have a glimmer of hopefulness, even in collapse.

Only rainbows after rain...The sun will always come again.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat

Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

(H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat.