Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

If calamities had the weight of physical objects we should long have been crushed down, or else, we should by now have been hunchbacked, unsteady on our feet, and with faces full of gloom and utter despair. Yet my entire body throbs with life and is full of expectations. Each day brings a fresh stock of experiences and new dreams.

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.

Faith in Jesus Christ helps one to joyfully live life "on wings of hope."