hope

"You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it."

"The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin."

"My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for."

"At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail."

"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again."

"Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!"

"At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about."

"One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?"

"I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason."

"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well."

"Love is the most precious gift you could ever possibly hope to steal. Some women foolishly do not leave their rib cages locked at night."

"If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart."

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

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

"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake."

"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."

"The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation."

"what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."