Hope

"One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun."

"When you are in doubt and lost, to find the way, chose love."

"Happiness is not a destination but a choice."

"Have a choice, learn the process and then go for the success."

"Sean was young, vibrant, capable. Life hadn't even begun to digest his hope."

"The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight."

"We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop."

"If you aren't living on the edge you're taking up too much room. Anon."

"We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!from "Gentleman Rankers"

"When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise."

"In those days I coerced Oracular assurance In my favour out of every sign."

"Life is uncertain. We can never predict when hard times shall strike."

"You are equipped to change atmospheres. The first one is your own. Rise up. Speak to your mountains and they will fall. Partner with Heaven and see it come to your rescue."

"Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It's hard work believing that it's there."

"There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet."

"His Nana's prayers were moving toward his mother like little butterflies of thoughts wrapped in the most beautiful colors. Each prayer looked like a mini-rainbow."

"Suddenly, he felt a tremendous stirring of hope inside his heart; it filled his whole body with its warmth. I may not be that much of a broken man, he thought to himself."

"They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you."

"She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven."

"There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There is must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live. And so, in hope and solitude, my story ends."