hope

"Hope is but the dream of those who wake."

"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate."

"Great hopes make great men."

"When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?"

"I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope."

"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way."

"I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro."

"Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best."

"The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope."

"I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope."

"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."

"There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same."

"God is writing His story on the pages of our lives."

"Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do."

"So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence."

"I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did."

"Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling"

"Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism."

"A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope."

"The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love."