hope

"Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope."

"But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns."

"I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'"

"I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope."

"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."

"Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story."

"Hope is a risk that must be run."

"The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future."

"We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light."

"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."

"Every goal first started as something in our mind. You have it all within you!"

"Why do we mortals wonder if it is through 'human chaos' or through 'divine perfection' when the world guides us to some magical event? In either case, is not the result the same? Is the result not 'divine perfection?"

"...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them."

"Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will."

"Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love."

"Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope."

"Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams."

"Walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone"

"I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world."

"Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds."