A Bakers Dozen (Hope Floats)

"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." ~ Allan K. Chalmers

"Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." ~ Arundhati Roy

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." ~ Dale Carnegie

"I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings." ~ Elie Wiesel

"Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Arriving at one point is the starting point to another." ~ John Dewey

"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death." ~ Pearl S. Buck

"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope." ~ Samuel Johnson

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." ~ Sir Winston Churchill

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." ~ Anne Frank

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of." ~ Blaise Pascal

"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow." ~ Dorothy Thompson