Someday at Christmas, Stevie Wonder

   

A great song about hope. 

 And for some reason whilst I was listening to this tune, this quote about hope from The Matrix popped into my mind...

"Hope is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness."
The Architect, Matrix Reloaded

And then after that, other movie quotes about hope popped into my head...

"Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. 
Andy, The Shawshank Redemption

 "What have they given us?"
"Hope" 
Princess Leia, Rogue One

 "The quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stay but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the company is true." 
Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

 "It's not an 'S'. On my world it means hope." 
Superman, Man of Steel

 "Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous." 
President Snow, The Hunger Games 

"We will find hope in the impossible" 
Spock, Star Trek Beyond

 "Time is short and unless the few of us who know the truth do not stand united, there is no hope for any of us." 
Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 

"You don't lose hope, honey. If you do, you lose everything" 
Mrs Potts, Beauty and the Beast

"I find I'm so excited that I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel. A free man at a start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope." 
Red, The Shawshank Redemption 

I have no idea how I began with a song and ended up with a handful of movie quotes. 

But I do know hope is a powerful thing. As Red says...

 "I hope". 

All because of that little bub born at Christmas.

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