The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched ... they must be felt with the heart. —Helen Keller

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.  —Thomas Fuller

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. —Vaclav Havel 

When God measures a [wo]man, He puts the tape around the heart instead of the head.   —Author unknown

Remember, what you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else, but what you are will be yours forever. —Henry Van Dyke

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. —Norman Cousins

Oxygen is to the body what hope is to the soul. —Emil Brunner

Man can live forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only one second without hope. —Hal Lindsey

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. —Pearl S. Buck

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all. —Emily Dickinson

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hope requires the long view. —Kari West

Don’t leave before the miracle happens. —Anonymous

Stay present. You will always have time to worry later on if you want to. —Dan Millman