#hope

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#hope #imagination #imagination

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.' To this day, especially in times of 'disaster,' I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#endurance #hope #mister-rogers #charity

I left my phone number on a napkin, along with trace amounts of spaghetti sauce and garlic bread grease, hoping she’d call me. And when she didn’t, I panicked and filed a missing person’s report with the police. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#hope #panic #funny

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. ↗

— Anne Carson

#desire #eros-the-bittersweet #hope #love #romance

Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#love #love

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect ↗

— Jane Austen

#expectations #hope #love #wish #love

It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#hope #love #relationships #love

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

— Stendhal

#birth #cause #degree #hope #small

Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don't always have to be strong to be there for each other--that it's okay to be weak, so long as we're there. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#love #strength #weakness #love

I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you. ↗

— Perry Moore

#failure #hope #love #unrequited-love #love