hope

"It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive."

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming."

"I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do."

"My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969."

"A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles."

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."

"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."

"Impending doom, it was a familiar sweater, we all wore it and as scratchy as it felt against our skin, we kept it on."

"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work."

"Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever."

"You can curse the moonCurse the day your’re bornBut the pilot of your plane is youWe’re all in this world, by a greater plan Look up, lift your wings, Because you canThe Light Said (The First Song album)"

"One of the things I noticed is that people really change when they realize their expiration date is coming, and they know what it is. Most of us don't: we just hope we can live as long as we can and do as much good as we can."

"There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in."

"When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse."

"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness."

"Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers."

"Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed."

"No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt."

"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it."