“Stress can destroy much more than just our physical health. Too often, it eats away at our hope, belief, and faith.”— Charles F. Glassman, amazon.com
“Don’t wait around for someone to appreciate you. Don’t wait around for someone to change. Never hope that if you stay for a bit more, he’ll look at you differently.”— Sam Millendo, thoughtcatalog.com
“I want to live as full as I can and that means offering up some second chances every once in a while and hoping they don’t come back to bite me.”— Mary O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Hope. Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day. Fight for the people you cherish and believe in. Believe in second chances.”— Wing Tjun, thoughtcatalog.com
“I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.”— Jennifer Elisabeth, amazon.com
“A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.”— Geraldine Solon, amazon.com
“Even though the world doesn’t understand you, it needs you. It needs people like you because you give it balance, you give people hope and you remind people that it’s okay to real, soft and vulnerable. You remind people that it’s okay to be a non-perfect human being.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?”— Anthony Horowitz, amazon.com
“You have to pass away from what failed you into what can sustain you. Otherwise - there is no hope.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“Lost in wilderness for weeks. Hope gone. A large bird lands next to you. Opens beak. 'Iris' by Goo Goo Dolls plays from its hollow mouth.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“She doesn’t realize that she’s as strong as iron, because she keeps going. She’s strong, because she still has hope. She’s strong, because she’s capable of smiling through the pain. She’s strong, because she’s still alive, even though she’s witnessed how cruel this world can be.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are…”— Mahatma Gandhi, amazon.com
“Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful, cheerful thought in the world will fix it. So let me cry awhile. Don't try to find a sunbeam where a shroud of darkness encloses me. Let me mourn. Then, afte…”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com