The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

Emily Dickinson:

“Hope” is the thing with feathers – /That perches in the soul – /And sings the tune without the words – /And never stops at all.

Gloria Steinem:

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Mignon McLaughlin:

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Nan Shin:

We all hope for a – must I say the word – recipe, we all believe, however much we know we shouldn’t, that maybe somebody’s got that recipe and can show us how not to be sick, suffer and die.

Pearl S. Buck:

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Sophia Lee:

Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.

Vita Sackville-West:

To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

Colette:

Hope costs nothing.