hope

"I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, 'Hey, didn't you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?'"

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

"I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me."

"You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better."

"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

"I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine."

"Her love used to be my lighthouse, and now it feels like I'm treading water in the dark. I’ll bet as soon as I start swimming, the sun will rise and color the sky with the romance of rose."

"I kept reaching for my muses,my wandering muses, floatingon clouds filled with their passions.”(Muses of Wandering Passions, p. 64)"

"One day I hope to open my own day-care center. My passion for kids is through the roof."

"History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club."

"I sell Ziploc bags. They’re not empty—they’re full of hope."

"Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world."

"I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind."

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."

"O Allah, You know me better than I know myself, and I know myself better than these people who praise me. Make me better than what they think of me, and forgive those sins of mine of which they have no knowledge, and do not hold me responsible for what they say."

"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."

"Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken."

"A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you. All you have to do is start reading!"

"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have."

"That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history."