“It takes but a handful of words to ambush my soul with hope. Yet, the vexing question in it all is why do I so often ambush the words?”

“Faith is acknowledging what I can’t see as a means of embracing that which I cannot afford to miss.”

“But I promise you, you guys can do it. In four days you’ll be the happiest person Earth has ever seen. You’ll stand by the ocean and feel the salty sea spray tingling in your nose. You’ll be with people you know and love, and you’all appreciate how beautiful everything is. You’ll see cars behind you in your rear view mirror, and maybe you’ll laugh at the driver’s faces. Because they’ll look annoyed, bored, angry. And you’ll realize what they’re missing. You’ll live a long and happy life, Mia. Because when you get home, you’ll realize that anything is possible. You mustn’t ever forget that.”

“In the midst of the dawn of sunshine, armed with faith and hope, we enter the splendid and bright New Year.”

“You can always see a light around the hopeful people and darkness around the hopeless! And what better shield you can have than having a light around you in the dusky times?”

“Without being hope to yourself, you cannot be hope to others!”

“As for any of us in crisis, hope is the one thing that’s everything.”

“There’s a glimmer of hope building inside me, lighting me up in a way that’s been dark and dormant.”

“Meghan Markle just single-handedly gave all divorced women more hope.”

“Hope is the escapist drug of the hopeless.”

“Hope was a dangerous thin. It filled you up. It made you believe in things you might never have but could not give up on.”

“HOPE grows like a flower when someone in need knows that you care.”

“His lone breaths- everywhere to be with himHope survives one more day, losing all fearWith the cold night’s touch through shivered scheme,His new day reminds of another yearFrom the poem Sonnet For A Man (Part II)”

“It wasn’t enough but it was a start. It might keep him going…”