Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering ‘it will be happier’…
Alfred Lord Tennyson
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.
David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy (via lisapizza)

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Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom’s cause. Hope is what led me here today — with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have courage to remake the world as it should be.
President Barack Obama [January 3, 2008]

I pray you’ll be filled with hope for as long as you possibly can.
Frances Conroy, Six Feet Under
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen Keller
Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinions starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaking suspicion… love actually is all around.

 

Hugh Grant, Love Actually

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As long as Hanukkah is studied and remembered, Jews will not surrender to the night. The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.
Irving Greenberg
I just need something to happen, I need a sign that things are going to change. I need a reason to go on. I need some hope! And in the absence of hope, I need to stay in bed a feel like I’m going to die today.
Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
Howard Zinn
For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.
Ted Kennedy
Dad always used to say the only causes worth fighting for were the lost causes.
Jimmy Stewart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington