“Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.”— Anne Lamott, amazon.com
“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”— Marion Zimmer Bradley, amazon.com
“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”— Laini Taylor, amazon.com
“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”— Pittacus Lore, amazon.com
“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”— John Guare, amazon.com
“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”— Barbara Kingsolver, amazon.com
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”— J.R.R. Tolkien, amazon.com
“If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.”— Chad Sugg, amazon.com
“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”— Anne Frank, amazon.com
“We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us, and believing or coming to believe that hope was our mistake and expectation our error, and that…”— Alfred Hayes, amazon.com
“When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.”— Robin Hobb, amazon.com
“I say goodbye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope's disappointment.”— David Levithan, amazon.com