Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

If you believe, unbelievable things can sometimes be possible.

At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

I had a strong conviction that there was something out there in the world that was wonderful.

Dreams do come true, no matter what people say.

As long as you pray and believe in your dreams, anything is possible.

If you believe, sometimes unbelievable things are possible.

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

I have great faith in a seed.

Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

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

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.