Hope

"Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily."

"She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken."

"A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again."

"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."

"I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains."

"It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."

"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming."

"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."

"Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..."

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

"If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him."

"But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars."

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

"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."

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."

"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."