"Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain."

Hope, Reality, Doubt, Life

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"Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain."

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"We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"Keep hoping until hope dies; remember, however, that hope never dies! Just take good steps with faith and hope!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I love the moments i lost a little faith, spirit would always remind me; it was just a bad day."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,Come from fathers long gone by.Bring blue from a distance eye.Lords of water, earth, and fire,Lords of wind and snow and rain,Give to my heart's desire.Life as all life comes with pain,But blue will come to us again."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The beauty of hope is that it often become a reality."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?"

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"When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth."

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"Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere."

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"All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here."

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"It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't."

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"Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board."

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"Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you."

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"What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either because he has been lost or because he has been found?"

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"What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed?"

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