hope

"Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings."

"I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard."

"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."

"I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet."

"We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human."

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

"I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life."

"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"

"Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram."

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."

"Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition."

"I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies."

"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."

"Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are"

"God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction."

"Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation."

"In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color."

"Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up."

"Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success."

"The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up."