Feeling Hopeful Quotes

#1. At the time I was feeling hopeful, which now seems kind of sad and brave.

Ruth Ozeki

#2. She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.
And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a word to express it, and that made Liesl feel hopeful, somehow.

Lauren Oliver

#3. Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

Joseph Campbell

#4. Always, Always have a plan

Rick Riordan

#5. If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.

Sarah Dessen

#6. Your physical body and this life force have come together to form the entity that answers to your name. They are joined by your breath. Breathing is worth noticing and appreciating.

Rick Carson

#7. No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written ... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career.

Don McLean

#8. My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

Vince Gill

#9. What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and of feeling at one with it. The other attitude which is the one our society is based on is devastating and it is killing the earth and it is killing us too.

W.S. Merwin

#10. He looked at her for another moment, then bent down on one knee.
Sidney's heart leapt out of her chest. "Oh my God, what are you doing?"
"Um ... getting eye-to-eye so we can talk," he said, as if this were evident.
"Oh. Right.

Julie James

#11. Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope

David Archuleta

#12. As an act recedes into the past and becomes imbedded in the network of one's individuality it seems more and more a product of fate - - inevitable. However, an act in the immediate present seems to be more a product of free will.

Sylvia Plath

#13. To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Sarah Kane

#14. Writers feel that they can't afford to wait. They must do it now, and they are so clever, and there is so much competition. I'm quite happy to wait, and quite confident that the muses will cross the stream.

Robert Dessaix

#15. I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted to end - the exact note - but I couldn't see how to get there. Sarah Murphy, my editor, asked the right questions to help me. I think of 'The Bear' as a hopeful book.

Claire Cameron

#16. To exist is simply to he there; those who exist let themselves be encountered, but you can never deduce anything from them.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#17. The goal is to be free and hopeful in the music. Because that's really the only intention you need. From there, every natural and powerful intention and feeling will, on its own, slide right out of you - out of your spirit.

Alex Ebert

#18. So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell begin to ring.

Clive Barker

#19. Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

Marc Chagall

#20. Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.

Katherine Paterson

#21. So afterward, while I was getting eviscerated by chemo, for some reason I decided to feel really hopeful. Not about survival but I felt like Anna does in the book, that feeling of excitement and gratitude about just being able to marvel at it all.

John Green

#22. There are clearly some policies that need to change, and the reputation of the credit card industry is not high. Reforms need to take place.

Kenneth Chenault

#23. Out of Africa, there is always something new.

Pliny The Elder

#24. Hal wills himself to stay objective and not form any judgments before he has serious data, hoping desperately for some sort of hopeful feeling to emerge.

David Foster Wallace

#25. You're saying we can write our own destiny," I said, feeling too jaded and stubborn in the moment to believe it.
"I am saying," he said carefully, "that this is not the end of the story. Not the way I am writing it.

Karina Halle

#26. Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#27. [ ... ]so I just sat there surrounded by Dutchness, feeling awkward and hopeful.

John Green

#28. of peace and love on a woman's face." Augusta's

Stephanie Grace Whitson

#29. again - I've realized that's what grieving is, a constant cycle of feeling better and feeling worse, and I'm hopeful that one day I'll feel better more often than I feel worse - so

Colleen Oakley

#30. Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

Martin Seligman

#31. Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.

Katherine Center

#32. If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.

Ben Carson