Hope is a lamp we carry through life’s storms. ✨ It asks us to keep seeing the world with youthful eyes, to reach for tomorrow with faith in better days. Here are words to help your heart hold onto that light.

The most important word in the English language is hope.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.” ~ Thomas Carlyle

“Groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.” ~ John Perry Barlow

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest.” ~ Alexander Pope

“There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.” ~ Anwar Sadat

“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 Wiesel

“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.” ~ Benedict De Spinoza

“Hope is patience with the lamp lit.” ~ Tertullian

“Great hopes make great men.” ~ Thomas Fuller

“Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.” ~ Norman Cousins

“A leader is a dealer in hope.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

“Hope is only the love of life.” ~ Henri-Frederic Amiel

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” ~ Francis Bacon

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” ~ Theodore Roethke

“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.” ~ Dalai Lama

“Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.” ~ Carl Sandburg