hope

"Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion."

"When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens."

"When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty."

"Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way"

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

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

"I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope."

"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."

"It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too."

"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."

"It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams."

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

"Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you."

"I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will."

"For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret...It is a word...the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE."

"Many things are thrown our way in this game of life. It's how you deal with them that shows your true character. I want all of you to feel the hope, love & passion I feel for the upcoming year & the rest of my life. I want ALL of you to not only go for your dreams, but have a damn ass good time doing it! Love & Warmth, May ♥"

"We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish."

"I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. [...] I do not believe that darkness will endure!"

"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on"

"In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer..."