hope

"The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles."

"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."

"Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either. There's both sweet and sour in every day. So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful? Concentrate on the good."

"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

"Anyone who thinks they can write the perfect comedy that everyone will love is a fool. I can only write what I think is funny and hope that there is a likeminded audience out there."

"I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance."

"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."

"Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature."

"Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed."

"Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out."

"What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true."

"Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated."

"We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough"

"As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it."

"In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young."

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

"Marriage is the death of hope."

"And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one."