"Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed."

"Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')"

"There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope."

"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."

"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."

"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."

"In a time of destruction, create something."

"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy."

"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."

"If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is."

"It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had."

"Long distance is hard. You have to trust that as you each change on your own, your relationship will also change along with you. It takes hope, good humor, and idealism. It takes a massive dose of courage to protect the relationship at all odds. It is hard, but worth it. You'll both be stronger as a result."

"I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine."

"If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you."

"I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is."

"Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened."

"I want him to love me as much as I love him."

"And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold."

"You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't bear it. Well that just isn't good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it's not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason.."

"I really don't even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound."

"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect"