William Wordsworth Quotes

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.

We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.

While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.

I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what’s happening now instead of what’s going to happen tomorrow.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it.

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!

I don't know what the future holds. All I know is, I'm good today. Real good.

Hope is universal.

I was incarcerated for a little while in Baltimore, and my celly was Muslim. I was watching him pray every day, and his outlook on getting out of that situation was a lot more positive than the other dudes that were Muslim in the jail.

Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing.

You could cry, get worried or angry like any other normal human being, as long as you remembered that, up above, your spirit was laughing out loud at all those thorny situations.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

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