Some Words To Live By

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. --Martin Luther King

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
--Vaclav Havel

He who has hope has everything. --Arabian Proverb

Trials give you strength, sorrows give understanding and wisdom. --Chuck T. Falcon

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. --Elie Weisel

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. --unknown

Fall seven times, stand up eight. --Japanese proverb

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" --Sydney J. Harris

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. --Emily Dickensons

Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark. --unknown