"While there's life, there's hope."

"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for."

"Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."

"Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. 'Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,' he agrees."

"Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?"

"What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness."

"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."

"It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish."

"We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."

"Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of individual growth and reveal our true potential. We have got to endure and overcome them, and move forward. Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."

"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."