hope

"I am hope."

"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."

"When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

"There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity."

"Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh."

"It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'"

"I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken."

"Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike."What do you mean?"Your daughter,"Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God."

"There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith."

"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."

"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs."

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

"Some people try to change the world one life at a time. Others try to change the world one death at a time. And I try to change the world one bucket full of dirt at a time."

"When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope."

"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough."

"She was a dreamer and a schemer & one didnt dream and scheme without hope."

"I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye."