“Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.” 
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it--second chances when all hope was lost.” 
― Kaya McLaren

“Destiny isn't something you make as you're told. By overcoming difficulties, life and this whole world can advance forward. That's what destiny is for. A world that has lost the power to advance forward, will be destroyed - Aladdin” 
― Shinobu Ohtaka

“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.” 
― Roman Payne

“When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.” 
― bell hooks

“Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.” 
― L.M. Montgomery

“There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.” 
― Neal A. Maxwell

“Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.” 
― Dean Koontz