One who has hope lives differently.

The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.

We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars - - glued together with magic and music and words.

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good...

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...

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.

Sitting in seat 14A, in the sun, I float on a full - moon, tidal joy unlike anything I've ever experienced. I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it's always sunny above the...

"I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know my son... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life."

'R'hllor, come to us in our darkness,' she called. 'Lord of Light, we offer you these false gods, these seven who are one, and him the enemy. Take them and cast your light upon us, for the night is...

They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No one. Only someday he'd see somebody different, somebody to give his things to, somebody...

In the same way that a fiancée is a bride-to-be, I've always thought a girlfriend is a fiancée-to-be. Yes, most relationships bite the dust before things get long-term. However, that possibility of...

I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.

It was a farewell. Not a good-bye, but a fare... well. and he had the sense they would.

And one day a great thing happened. Dov Landau smiled again.

The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit

I didn't see how it could be anything bad, because that wasn't the way God worked, or at least the way I'd always believed he worked. I had gotten something back today that I'd all but lost, and by...

You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other...

Taking a breath, I stepped into the line to find him standing right where I'd left him, smiling with his hand extended.

We actually have the authority to remind each other of the gospel and defy the darkness of living in a broken world by pointing to the light of Christ. We all need to have our bruised, papery hands...

Sometimes help comes from unexpected places.

It was a spring day, one of those that bring hope: full of gentle breezes and delicate aromas of heated earth.

For dreams that never die.

Did I ever tell you that you are like sunshine in the middle of the night?

You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree, you could be the sun that never leaves the sky, this might be the happy ending without the ending, this might be a reason to try

He's telling Liesel's story to prove to himself that humans can be beautiful and selfless and worthwhile.

She clung desperately to the words that had saved her life.

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

But I lived in that moment - my life became beautiful again for those few seconds when our hands grazed.

The poor blame hope, despite the adversities that weigh heavily on them.