"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it."

Hope, Future, Present, Solitude

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"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it."

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"If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Be brave enough to listen to your heart, be bold enough to hope for the best."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"If you are still alive, your blessings are far from being over. Keep aiming higher and don't allow anyone or anything to steal your faith and hope."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"A seed today is a forest tomorrow."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"I've never seen such a hunger in people for spiritual things . . .People realize the past is gone, the future is uncertain, and the present seems to be hopeless. As a result, many [in Moscow] were open to God."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ."

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"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

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"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence."

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"Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how."

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"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."

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"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."

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"The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me."

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"October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful."

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"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire."

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"The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error."

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