Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

No matter how dark the moment, no matter how dark the hour, light will always shine through.

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

This, too, shall pass away.

There is no harm in taking aim, even if the target is a dream.

We sometimes are called upon to work with people for whom others have abandoned all hope. Perhaps we have even come to the conclusion that there's no possibility of change or growth. It's at that time that, if we can find the tiniest scrap of hope, we may turn the corner, achieve a measurable gain, save someone worth saving.

It is wiser not to expect, but to hope, for in expecting, you ask for disappointment, whereas in hoping, you invite surprise.

Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among stars.

Don't expect the inevitable, hope for the impossible.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life at any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.

Hope is the denial of reality.

When things go bad they can only get better. . .

What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning.

Remember hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

Sometimes I just wish it were greener on my side.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

I don't want to hope anymore, I almost died from this in the first place, and I don't want to get that down again.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Sol Lucet Omnibus (The sun shines for everyone)

I still want to believe that somewhere, somehow, there is a happy ending for every story. It all depends on how thoroughly you look for it and how deeply you need it.

Without the rain there would be no rainbow.

It was one thing to hope, but you had to take care of yourself in the present, or you wouldn't survive.

"Love the One You're With" It was a tune life kept forcing on me, and yet there I was, hope fluttering like a bird in my hand.

Hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst.

Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.

Embers are easily rekindled, but ashes leave no hope.

And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an accident of hope.

When the air was silent and everything faded it meant only that these exiles came into a country not their own, into radiance without hope.

To the world that is not and that says to me: "I do not give you any hope. Not even hope."

Every blade of grass, each leaf, each separate floret and petal, is an inscription of hope. Consider the grasses and the oaks, the swallows, the sweet blue butterfly - they are one and all a sign and token showing before our eyes earth made into life. . . my hope becomes as broad as the horizon afar, reiterated by every leaf, sung on every bough, reflected in the gleam of every flower. There is so much for us yet to come, as much to be gathered, and enjoyed. Not for you or me, now, but for our race, who will ultimately use this magical secret for their happiness. Earth holds secrets enough to give them the life of the fabled Immortals. My heart is fixed firm and stable in the belief that ultimately the sunshine and the summer, the flowers and the azure sky, shall become, as it were, interwoven into man's existence. He shall take from all their beauty and enjoy their glory.

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true. Hope is wanting something so eagerly that – in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it – you go right on wanting it. And the remarkable thing about it is that this very act of hoping produces a kind of strength of its own.