If one has truly lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ~ Eric Bentley

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. ~ The Dead Poet's Society

Sometimes you've gotta smile and walk away, hold all your tears in and pretend you're okay. People change and things go wrong. Things happen, but life goes on.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse, and when they are, we find in hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes

Please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up ... forgive, but don't forget. Girl, keep your head up and when he tells you, "You ain't nothin," don't believe him. And if he can't learn to love you, you should leave him. Keep ya head up. ~ 2Pac

We must accept infinite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Sometimes we may feel as if what we are doing is a drop of water in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

To love the one who loves you, to admire one who admires you ... in a word ... to be the idol of ones idol ... is exceeding the limit of human joy. It is stealing fire from heaven. ~ Mad de Giradin

If it were not for hope, the heart would break. ~ Thomas Fuller

Keep your head up and your arms out; you never know what may fall into your life.

Take all that you’ve become, set your standards high. You deserve the best … to be all that you can be. Soar above the clouds and let your dreams set you free. ~ Jillian K. Hunt

Life can take your dreams and turn them upside down, friends will talk about you when you're not around, reality can really cut you down to size, but don't ever loose the light in your eyes. People make you promises they'll never keep, soon you'll know why people say talk is cheap, life resembles one big compromise but don't ever loose the light in your eyes. ~ LeAnne Rhimes

Sometimes, even in dark alleys, a red rose will bloom with just a touch of reflected sunlight.

There’d be no good days, if there weren’t any bad ones. The sky wouldn’t be blue, if it were never black. And sometimes you need to fall halfway down the mountain to find a new trail that will take you straight to the top.

So often it happens that we spend our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the keys. ~ The Eagles

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~ Edith Wharton

When you get in a tight place and everything goes again you till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then. For that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve. ~ Sophia Loren

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best – that’s inspiration. ~ Robert Bresson

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

As I live each day may I do my part to make one difference, to touch one heart. And through each day may it be my goal to encourage one mind and inspire one soul.

I’ve never been the praying type, but lately I’ve been down upon my knees … not praying for a miracle, just a reason to believe.

It’s only when you stop believing that the worst happens. ~ Vertical Horizon

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

He who has help has hope, and he who has hope has everything. ~ Arab Proverb

All of us are stars and deserve the right to twinkle. ~Marilyn Monroe

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ~ Walt Disney

If you can look at the sunset and smile, then you still have hope. If you can see the good in other people, then you still have hope. If you meet new people with a trace of excitement and optimism, then you still have hope. If you still give people the benefit of the doubt, then you still have hope. If the suffering in others still fills you with pain, then you still have hope. If you still watch love stories or want endings to be happy, then you still have hope. If you can look at the past and smile, then you still have hope. If, when faced with bad and told everything is futile, you can still look at the up and at the end of the conversation say, “Yeah, but …” then you still have so much hope. If you still offer your hand of friendship to those who have touched your life, then you still have hope. If you refuse to let a friendship die or accept that it must end, then you still have very much hope.