“God dances with the outcast.” 
― Steven James

“In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.” 
― Victor Hugo

“Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost.” 
― Crystal Woodman Miller

“He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.” 
― Daniel Wallace

“It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?"
It took him a minute. "Yes," he said finnally. "It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her." Oh? What?"
I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on." Lucy didn't laugh. "Don't think I haven't thought of that too, love. but here's the thing. That parents try that in all the fairy tales. It never works.” 
― Nancy Werlin

“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.” 
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.” 
― H.G. Wells

“Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.” 
― Toba Beta