Hope floats

Remember Red, hope is a good thing, may be the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
- movie Shawshank Redemption

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
- Martin Luther King (I have a dream... speech)

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde

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

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
-Emil Brunner

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

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

- Emily Dickinson