“You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.” 
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.” 
― Michael Jackson

“But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.” 
― Sarah Dessen

“It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.” 
― Nicholas Sparks

“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.” 
― G.K. Chesterton

“Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.” 
― Margaret Stohl

“The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.” 
― Timothy J. Keller

“It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.” 
― Jocelyn Soriano