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The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.
— Malorie Blackman, Boys Don't Cry
But everything I have to give, I'll give to you
— Ray Lamontagne
Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
— Aberjhani, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
Broken hearts, you can run, you can hide and perhaps the earth is big enough to believe you’re safe. So maybe for a moment you have escaped but hear me, hear me well. Love will find you and it will leave nothing behind.
— Robert M. Drake
The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.
— Robert M. Drake
It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty
A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.
— Nusrat Sultana
We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.
— Robert M. Drake
Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I can see paradise by the dashboard light.
— Meat Loaf, Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.
— Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream.
— Thomas Wolfe
To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
— John F. Kennedy
He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
— Lucy Larcom
So this is my cue of where to leave you. Now it's your story to retell and pass on. Because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon. So remember, never surrender.'Cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore from any scope.
— Thomas Dutton
One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do
—  however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do!
this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhiliration of good health. and if we never cried, we wouldnt be able to recognize joy. in a way, the good only gains value when it is contrasted with the bad
— Priscilla Warner, The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding
A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.
— Geraldine Solon, The Assignment
What is false about hope?
— Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven
So dry your tears. Fortune has not yet turned her hatred against all your blessings. The storm has not yet broken upon you with too much violence. Your anchors are holding firm and they permit you both comfort in the present, and hope in the future.
— Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
One always has hope for human nature
— Agatha Christie, Sleeping Murder
Great hopes make great men.
— Thomas Fuller
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
— Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
You were standing in the wake of devastation And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown And with the cataclysm raining down Insides crying "Save me now" You were there, impossibly alone
— Linkin Park
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.
— Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Mind led bodyto the edge of the precipice.They stared in desireat the naked abyss.If you love me, said mind,take that step into silence.If you love me, said body,turn and exist.
— Anne Stevenson
Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
— A.R. Ammons, Sphere: The Form of a Motion
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS
— Abraham Lincoln
Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water. But suddenly I thought of Tutok, and the island seemed very quiet.
— Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
— Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it--second chances when all hope was lost.
— Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again
Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North
Despair is a free man—hope isa slave.
— L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
Destiny isn't something you make as you're told. By overcoming difficulties, life and this whole world can advance forward. That's what destiny is for. A world that has lost the power to advance forward, will be destroyed - Aladdin
— Shinobu Ohtaka
With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.
— Roman Payne
Tomorrow, you promise yourself, things will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. And you disappoint yourself again and again.
— James T. McCay
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.
— bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.
— Dean Koontz, Winter Moon
Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him, something that he couldn’t see but she could.
— Carol Oates, Ember
Remember this, - where there is life there is hope. You're alive. Embrace this, because YOU CAN DO ANYTHING while there is breath in your body.
— Lola Jaye, By The Time You Read This
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.
— Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw
That was how it always was with Colleen: No matter how sad she felt, there was always this little bit of hope - like a speck of glitter caught in your eyelash - that never went away, no matter what.
— Lauren Tarshis, Emma Jean Lazarus Fell in Love
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
— Christopher Bigsby
Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.' Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. 'Bright songs and the magic of hope are but a dangerous illusion. The fake comfort of witches charms.
— Robert Fanney
I remembered back to leo's burial and holding your hand. I was eleven and you were six, your hand soft and small in mine. As the vicar said 'in sure and certain hope of the resurrection of eternal life' you turned to me, 'I don't want sure and certain hope I want sure and certain Bee.
— Rosamund Lupton, Sister
A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one
— Priyansh Shah
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation? You build up hope, but failure’s all you’ve known Remember all the sadness and frustration And let it go. Let it go
— Linkin Park
I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That's really why I do what I do.
— Ellen DeGeneres
The path i walk lights up in flames
— Roberta Karim
A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you. All you have to do is start reading!
— Shannon L. Alder
Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
Hope without love is hopeless.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.
— Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It"
Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.
— Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.
— Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly.
— Robert M. Drake
I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing. 
— Tammara Webber, Between the Lines
I remember being scared that something must, surely, go wrong, if we were this happy, her and me, in the early days, when our love was settling into the shape of our lives like cake mixture reaching the corners of the tin as it swells and bakes.
— Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers
You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.
— William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust
Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal
— A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all.
Stop counting your losses and start counting your blessings. Only then will you discover that losses are always easier to point out and count than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber your losses, for they are truly immeasurable.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the bubbling up of a sanguine temperament; if it is demanded of us, it lies not in the temperament but in the will... Hoping for what? For delivereance from persecution, for immunity from plague, pestilence, and famine...? No, for the grace of persevering in his Christian profession, and for the consequent achievement of a happy immortality. Strictly speaking, then, the highest exercise of hope, supernaturally speaking, is to hope for perseverance and for Heaven when it looks, when it feels, as if you were going to lose both one and the other.
— Ronald Knox
The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.
— Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch
It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces.
— Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.
— Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Everything happens for a reason. Just be patient.
— Michael Christos Zeis
Love could be a last hope and a star to steer by.
— Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles
If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity. 
— Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
In all my wanderings through this world of care,In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down;To husband out life's taper at the close,And keep the flame from wasting, by repose:I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill,Around my fire an evening group to draw,And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue,Pants to the place from whence at first she flew,I still had hopes, my long vexations past,Here to return -- and die at home at last.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Denial. It’s the only thing that keeps most of us from losing our sanity.
— Heena Rathore P., Deceived
Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
— Barack Obama
Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.
— Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.
— Tobias Wolff, Old School
We must be content to grow slowly. Most of us will still barely be at the beginning of our recovery by the time we die. But that is better than killing ourselves pretending to be healthy.
— Simon Tugwell
God can inject hope into a absolutely hopeless situation.
— Mark  Evans
Hope and faith goes hand-in-hand, because without hope there is no faith. The same goes with want and needs, without any wants, there no need to have a need
— Temitope Owosela
May the sun come, it's a new day; In the pure land of fantasy; That our darkness enlightened
— Miguel Torga
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.
— Jane Yolen
…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...
— Sharon Kay Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept
Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?
— Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive
I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I too have buried my demons today, without knowing what might remain beneath the face of tomorrow.
— Robert M. Drake
They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our doors and hide our children. Their aim is to make us fear life itself! They want us to hate. They want us to hate 'the other'. They want us to practice aggression and perfect antagonism. Their aim is to divide us all! They want us to be inhuman. They want us to throw out our kindness. They want us to bury our love and burn our hope. Their aim is to take all our light! They think their bricked walls will separate us. They think their damned bombs will defeat us. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that my soul and your soul are old friends. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that when they cut you I bleed. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that we will never be afraid, we will never hate and we will never be silent for life is ours!
— Kamand Kojouri
The king was silent. "Ents!" he said at length. "Out of the shadows of legend I begin a little to understand the marvel of the trees, I think. I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of the strange places, and walk visible under the Sun.""You should be glad," Théoden King," said Gandalf. "For not only the little life of Men is now endangered, but the life also of those thing which you have deemed the matter of legend. You are not without allies, even if you know them not.""Yet also I should be sad," said Théoden. "For however the fortune of war shall go, may it not so end that much that was fair and wonderful shall pass for ever out of Middle-earth?
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
— Jane Goodall
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ballads and Other Poems
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name?
— Graham Greene
Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.
— Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
Hope Was but a timid friend;She sat without the grated den,Watching how my fate would tend,Even as selfish-hearted men.She was cruel in her fear;Through the bars one dreary day,I looked out to see her there,And she turned her face away!Like a false guard, false watch keeping,Still, in strife, she whispered peace;She would sing while I was weeping;If I listened, she would cease.False she was, and unrelenting;When my last joys strewed the ground,Even Sorrow saw, repenting,Those sad relics scattered round;Hope, whose whisper would have givenBalm to all my frenzied pain,Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven,Went, and ne'er returned again!
— Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems
You can give illness to her body but you can't take the gypsy out of that girl.
— Nikki Rowe
You put a new heart in Emma a long time ago, it just wasn’t the kind you were thinking of.” He laughed to himself. “Hope is an amazing thing. I saw it in Emma, saw it with my own eyes.
— Charles Martin
When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.
— Shannon L. Alder
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
She comforted him in his darkness and gave him hope. She seemed to cherish a sincere affection for him, despite his failings. 'She saved me'.
— Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno
Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)
— C.S. Lewis
In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross.
— Thomas à Kempis, The Inner Life
There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When you are human, you discover that there is great power in hating the earth. And it can almost make you fly. But it never will."I had frowned, not quite understanding him. "So, what's the trick?""Love the sky.
— Anne Fortier, Juliet
[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.
— Christine de Pizan, Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
—  and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope.
— Patrick Curry, Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity
Don’t simply exist in this world, but grasp life’s potential by the jacket. Dare it to be all it can. Make life historical—a gripping account of accomplishment. Make life a mystery—a challenging, bold adventure. Make life heartfelt—an enduring, poetic romance. Whatever it is you make of your world, live the fairytale.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Return of a Queen
I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
— Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Retribution
The day will bring hope for me," said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?""So the minstrels say," said Éomer."Then let us defend it, and hope!
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Here's a funny question:What is your favorite word?Think about it—maybe it's a word that makes you absolutely happy, or a word that sounds gloriously beautiful, or a word that evokes awe and wonder. Maybe you are reminded of a great time when you hear it, or maybe it represents your life's dream.So, what is it? What is your favorite word of all words?Thought about it yet?Good..
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
It's not that we had no heart or eyes for pain. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable...What was worse, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?"So we decided to hold parties and pretend each week had become the new year. Each week we could forget past wrongs done to us. We weren't allowed to think a bad thought. We feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy. And that's how we came to call our little parties Joy Luck.
— Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought--some adaptive gene that allowed the English to go on making blithe outdoor plans in the face of almost certain rain.
— Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless
— Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
You are one woman in an endless line of women who were chosen to love more passionately than others, be committed to justice more fervently than others, and seek our Maker’s higher expressions more reflectively than others.
— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney, Autumnal Dancer
After this is over, I want a shower in a really big bathroom.""I'll get us the penthouse.""What makes you think you'll be sharing it with me?""I live in hope.
— Nalini Singh, Angels' Flight
It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that grows in secretThat bears fruit in secretThat ripened falls to the ground in secretAnd manures the parent treeOh the wicked tree of hatred and the secretThe sap rising and the tears falling.
— Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
Hope knows no fear.Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss.Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.
— Sri Chinmoy
Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
Sometimes people need to know they could be forgiven to have the strength to change.
— J. Leigh Bralick, Prism
We do matter. To believe that our lives are meaningful is the essence of faith. We are not as large, or as bright, or as eternal as the stars, but we carry humankind's message of love across the galaxy. We are the first. We are the world makers. Our nourishment is hope. Like the tender reed shaking in the wind, we will reach up to a new sun.
— Amy Kathleen Ryan, Glow
I dalje verujem da Sunce izlazi svakoga dana i da svako novo Sunce najavljuje novi dan;dan koji je juče bio budućnost. I dalje verujem da će današnji dan, u trenutku zatvaranja jedne stranice vremena, obećati sutra – ranije nepredvidivo, kasnije neponovljivo
— Carlos Fuentes
I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you’re there and I’m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world. Whatever you want from me, it’s yours — just please help me. You know how I get when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these days.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
— George Iles
...stooping very low, He engraves with careHis Name, indelible, upon our dust;And from the ashes of our self-despair,Kindles a flame of hope and humble trust.He seeks no second site on which to build,But on the old foundation, stone by stone,Cementing sad experience with grace,Fashions a stronger temple of His own.
— Patricia St. John, Patricia St. John Tells Her Own Story
Here is little habit that can make a big difference. Send sunbeams. Intentionally send a word of encouragement or appreciation every day to one person.
— Steve Goodier
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Hope...which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.
— Ian Caldwell, The Rule of Four
A man is a fool to live in hopes of a better tomorrow. I have a thousand, better ways today to spend what time remains ahead of me, and I have brighter, lighter and more pleasant places in which to spend it.
— Jack Whyte, Uther
If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Hope may have a positive reputation, but it has a vicious downside. If you have hope, you can be crushed.
— Ann Napolitano, A Good Hard Look
Similar to a butterfly, I've gone through a metamorphosis, been released from my dark cocoon, embraced my wings, and soared!
— Dana Arcuri, Reinventing You: Simple Steps to Transform Your Body, Mind, & Spirit
Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune.
— Lucian of Samosata
Are we alone? Over time, you will come up with various answers to that same nagging question. Eventually one day it will occur to you that this endless asking is the answer you have been looking for. The fact that we have an ongoing dialogue with the universe is proof enough that there is "something" out there.
— Veronique Vienne, The Art of the Moment: Simple Ways to Get the Most from Life
A DAY LAYE""Every dawn of our lives a heart is forged andLinked with lore to one so similarBorn with blessed life dustStored beneath its soulTo bless and pass onto its childrenEven though the wind may blow it all awayDon't ever worry 'cos I'm your friend.
— Marc Bolan, Marc Bolan Lyric Book
Chapters - Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesn’t mean the end of the book.
— Edenia Archuleta
It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed.It sounded like a revolution.It sounded like hope.
— Alex Scarrow, The Eternal War
Here's another poem,like all others before and after,dedicated to you.There isn't anything left to be saidbut I will spend my lifetrying to put you into words.You who is every goodness,every optimismand hope.Your love is a better fate for methan anything I could wish for.If you are a part of me, then you’re the best part.And if you're separate from me, then you are my destination.But I’ve become a weary traveller,so please,let us never be apart.
— Kamand Kojouri
Once a day has begun eventfully, it generally carries on being every bit as lively.
— Albert Ehrenstein, Tubutsch
What did I tell you? Something's happening!' cried Sam. '"The war's going well," said Shagrat; but Gorbag he wasn't so sure. And he was right there too. Things are looking up, Mr. Frodo. haven't you got some hope now?''Well, no, not much, Sam,' Frodo sighed. 'That's away beyond the mountains. We're going east not west. And I'm so tired. And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. And I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.
— Erin Hunter
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.
— T.D. Jakes
Wherever there's hope there's a trial.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Many things are thrown our way in this game of life. It's how you deal with them that shows your true character. I want all of you to feel the hope, love & passion I feel for the upcoming year & the rest of my life. I want ALL of you to not only go for your dreams, but have a damn ass good time doing it! Love & Warmth, May ♥
— May Water/May B. Wilde
A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour.
— Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections
Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.
— Michael Flynn, Eifelheim
In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
I know now, just quite howMy life and love might still go onIn your heart, in your mindI'll stay with you for all of time.
— The Calling
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
— Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to.
— Toni Sorenson
The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, is a sign that the day has just begun and good things can still happen. Having lunch is like throwing in the towel.
— Jonathan Goldstein, Lenny Bruce is Dead
With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.
— Tess Gerritsen, The Silent Girl
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
The Rest of Our Life Is Going To Be The Best of Our Life!
— Darrell Yarbrough
Hope and desire,All unfulfilled,Have more than ropeAnd hangman killed.
— Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
Sorry Johnny." "Sorry for what " "For shouting at you. It's just that when I think about the future I keep panicking. It's like falling from the top of the stairs in the dark not knowing where I'll end up."  He put his arm around my shoulders. "I understand. Life is precarious for most of us but more so for you. What you forget is what most of your friends see in you."  "What's that " "The ability to beat the odds..." "And fall on my feet " He nodded.  "I just hope that lasts." "It will Catkin it will. It wouldn't dare fail you.
— Julia Golding, Den of Thieves
Hope is a journeyInto an enchanted tomorrow
— Karen Hackel, The Whisper of Your Soul
Live for the lovers, not the haters!
— Scylar Tyberius, Sebastian the Great
That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
— Jesse Ball, The Curfew
Have faith in your beliefs
— Michael Christos Zeis
Hope is a seed that grows inside us from the moment we are born
— J.D. Willd
Do we ever have to abandon all hope? Is it not perhaps a good thing that by refusing to give in to the evidence, the dreams that lie half awake in us all may persist?
— Théodore Monod
Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing.
— Joan Clark
Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.
— Gabrielle Giffords
Forget yesterday ... Tomorrow still holds happy surprises for us.
— David S. Mark
A few weeks ago I had a dream. I dreamed I was back at the house, in the red room, reading my microeconomics textbook. Maddy outside playing with Hope, and Agnes was preparing dinner. It was just like old times. I was elated. I knew all along that they weren't really dead. It was all just a terrible mistake. Maddy joined me in the library. Strangely, she didn't smell like anything. Not her usual crème brulee or green apples or candy. That's when I realized she was dead, though I didn't know I was dreaming. She apologized for everything and then proceeded to explain why things had turned out the way they had. Her story made complete sense. It was what I needed to hear. Finally I had an answer. Finally I could let go. And then she vanishedWhen I woke up, in a pool of sweat, I couldn't remember a thing Maddy had said.
— Katherine Easer, Vicious Little Darlings
To die,so young to die.No, no, not I,I love the warm sunny skies,light, song, shining eyes,I want no war, no battle cry,No, no, not I.
— Hannah Senesh
Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam
— Stephanie Skeem
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world." Winston Churchill Christmas Eve Message, 1941 as printed in "In the Dark Streets Shineth.
— David McCullough, In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story
She was famous, and she was insane.Her voice soared out over the audience, holding them spellbound and enraptured, delivering their hopes and fears tangled in chords and rhythm. They called her an angel, her voice a gift.She was famous, and she was a liar.
— Dianne Sylvan, Queen of Shadows
The traumatized person is often relieved simply to learn the true name of her condition. By ascertaining her diagnosis, she begins the process of mastery. No longer imprisoned in the wordlessness of the trauma, she discovers that there is a language for her experience. She discovers that she is not alone; others have suffered in similar ways. She discovers further that she is not crazy; the traumatic syndromes are normal human responses to extreme circumstances. And she discovers, finally, that she is not doomed to suffer this condition indefinitely; she can expect to recover, as others have recovered...
— Judith Lewis Herman
Women think in [Douglas] Sirk’s films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It’s something that has to be seen. It’s great to see women think. It gives one hope. Honestly.
— Rainer Werner Fassbinder
NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of manIn me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were flying in formation when the control tower summoned them down. The more it rained, the worse they suffered. The worse they suffered, the more they prayed that it would continue raining. All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars. All through the day, they looked at the bomb line on the big, wobbling easel map of Italy that blew over in the wind and was dragged in under the awning of the intelligence tent every time the rain began. The bomb line was a scarlet band of narrow satin ribbon that delineated the forward most position of the Allied ground forces in every sector of the Italian mainland.For hours they stared relentlessly at the scarlet ribbon on the map and hated it because it would not move up high enough to encompass the city.When night fell, they congregated in the darkness with flashlights, continuing their macabre vigil at the bomb line in brooding entreaty as though hoping to move the ribbon up by the collective weight of their sullen prayers. "I really can't believe it," Clevinger exclaimed to Yossarian in a voice rising and falling in protest and wonder. "It's a complete reversion to primitive superstition. They're confusing cause and effect. It makes as much sense as knocking on wood or crossing your fingers. They really believe that we wouldn't have to fly that mission tomorrow if someone would only tiptoe up to the map in the middle of the night and move the bomb line over Bologna. Can you imagine? You and I must be the only rational ones left."In the middle of the night Yossarian knocked on wood, crossed his fingers, and tiptoed out of his tent to move the bomb line up over Bologna.
— Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted"-Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)
— Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
Oh no," I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.
— Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
For if the darkness and corruption leaveA vestige of the thoughts that once I had,Better by far you should forget and smileThan that you should remember and be sad.
— Christina Rossetti, Poems of Christina Rossetti
The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved.
— Rebecca Solnit
i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till i came to one of the poles of the earth
— Ernest Shackleton
By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency. 
— Steven Galloway
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
— Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
The morning was full of sunlight and hope.
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening
...This is the arena in which a spiritualized disobedience means most. It doesn't mean a second New Deal, another massive bureaucratic attack on our problems. It doesn't mean taking to the streets, throwing bricks through the window at the Bank of America, or driving a tractor through the local McDonald's. It means living differently. It means taking responsibility for the character of the human world. That's a real confrontation with the problem of value. In short, refusal of the present is a return to what Thoreau and Ruskin called "human fundamentals, valuable things," and it is a movement into the future. This movement into the future is also a powerful expression of that most human spiritual emotion, Hope.p.124
— Curtis White, The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work
The journey through another world, beyond bad dreamsbeyond the memories of a murdered generation,cartographed in captivity by bare survivorsmakes sacristans of us all.The old ones go our bail, we oblate preachers of our tribes.Be careful, they say, don't hock the beads of kinship agonies; the moire-effect of unfamiliar hymnsupon our own, a change in pitch or shrillness of the voicetransforms the ways of song to words of poetry or proseand makes distinctionsno one recognizes.Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscanson the edge of useless law; we prayto the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistlein ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chainof incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.
— Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.
— Jerome Groopman
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. 
— Vincent McNabb
I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.
— Lauren Myracle, Bliss
Wherever the hope of glory lives, hopelessness passes away.
— Nadine C. Keels, The Song of Nadine
Because now that it's finally morning, the shadows are beginning to fade, the shadows that have been covering my mind and my soul. Now that they're gone, I can almost start to see the way, and it's different from the one they'd convinced me was all I could have.
— Vixen Phillips, Trapdoor
Faith doesn't always come naturally but as we take those steps of faith, we notice little by little that our faith has grown and it isn't as hard as we first thought. 
— Jacqueline Winslow
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;
— Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
...but if there was one thing that all my years as the Spider, all the battles, all the brushes with my own death, had taught me, then it was THIS.That THIS was what was important. This moment right now and all the ones that we are lucky enough to have after it. Today, tomorrow, hell, maybe even forever.
— Jennifer Estep, Heart of Venom
I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl