inspirational quotes about hope

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. ~Mark Twain, "What Is Man?", 1906



Water flows uphill towards money. ~Anonymous, saying in the American West, quoted by Ivan Doig in Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, 1986



When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor



I'm going to be around until the Atomic Energy Commission finds a safe place to bury my liver. ~Phil Harris



Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. ~Charles M. Crowe



We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. ~John Locke



The Internet isn't free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. ~Brad Shapcott



Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ~George Eliot



He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. ~Willa Cather



Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy. ~Terri Guillemets



A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ~John Ruskin



The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabian Proverb



We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



A wee child toddling in a wonder world.... I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan. ~Zitkala-Sa



I love mankind - it's people I can't stand. ~Charles M. Schulz, Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown



What is one man's meat is another man's rank poison. ~Lucretius



His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. ~Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, 1749



Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin