Hope & Optimism

• "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." —Francis Pharcellus Church (Miracle on 34th Street)
• "Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart." —Anne Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank)
• "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." —Oscar WIlde
• "Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy." — Eskimo Proverb
• "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." —Albert Einstein
• "Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all." —Emily Dickinson
• "Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." —George Iles
• "Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be." —Don Quixote
• "Hope is patience with the lamp lit." —Tertullian
• "If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you." —Calvin Coolidge
• 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