Monday, February 27, 2006
[[Hope]]
- All human wisdom is summed up in two words — wait and hope. ~ Alexander Dumas
- Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. ~ Rita Mae Brown
- Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God. ~ Pindar
- Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Everything passes away - suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will still remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes towards the stars? Why? ~ Mikhail Bulgakov, from The White Guard
- Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. ~ Martin Luther
- Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. ~ Anne Lamott
- Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. ~ Vaclav Havel
- Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.
~ Emily Dickinson ~
- Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment. ~ Librarian - Warhammer 40,000
- Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ~ Samuel Johnson
- Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. ~ Vaclav Havel
- Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that. ~ William Hazlitt
- Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. ~ Jean Kerr
- Hope — it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness. ~ The Architect The Matrix Reloaded
- Hope makes for a good breakfast, but a poor supper. ~ Francis Bacon
- Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. ~ Anonymous
- Hope springs eternal within the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest. ~ Alexander Pope
- I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. ~ Thomas Jefferson
- I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way. ~ Carl Sandburg
- If I was perfect, then you would be coming to my house to pray to me. ~ Jeffrey L Keller
- If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith and we have hope, and we can work. ~ Jacques Cousteau
- In this uncertain space between birth and death … we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. The trick, however, is to remember that hope is a perilous thing, that it's not a steel and concrete bridge across the void between this moment and a brighter future. Hope is no stronger than tremulous beads of dew strung on a filament of spider web, and it alone can't long support the terrible weight of an anguished mind and a tortured heart. - Christopher Snow in Seize the Night by Dean Koontz
- It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts an opiate. ~ Eric Hoffer
- 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 Weisel
- Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here. ~ Dante Alighieri, from The Divine Comedy: Inferno
- Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein
- Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have. ~ Unknown
- Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more of desire than judgement ~ William Penn
- Optimism is the father that leads to achievement. ~ Helen Keller
- Hope is the confidence or belief pertaining to ones ability to predict outcome/s. When the foundations of that confidence or belief are shaken hope slowly melts away. ~ Shrikant
- Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty ~ Winston Churchill
- 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. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
- There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~ John Ruskin
- To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. ~ Erich Fromm
- True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort ~ Walter Anderson
- We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. ~ Martin Luther King
- While there's life, there's hope! ~ Ancient Proverb
- Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them. ~ William James
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