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Hope Quotes


"True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes Gods and meaner creatures kings."


"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."



". . .where there is no more hope, song remains."


"Let the light of hope always enlighten your soul."


"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."



"As long as I can find hope in myself, there is hope for the future of the earth and the human race. If I fail to discover hope in myself, there is no hope for the earth or the human race. If I discover the goodness of human nature in myself, I can find it in the entire human race. If I fail to discover it in myself, I can't expect it from anyone else, either."


"What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope."


"Shepherds lift their heads,not to gaze at a new lightbut to hear angels."


"Maybe the greatest hope of Christmas is that what it purports to be is exactly what it is."


"We are only failures in life when give up and stop trying. If you fail, get up and try again."


"Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you can bear to give it," he instructed before I began to write, "because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope."


"If in fact it's not too late to realize that something's 'too late', then there's a good chance that it's not."


"I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them."


"Reach for the stars, not your fears."


"Despair sees no hope, while hope sees no despair."


"Sincere wishes come true."


"There's a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never heard it spoken before. Over the last few years, I'd given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself, especially in times of fear. But to hear it from someone else now, from someone who is speaking sincerely..."


"You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better."



"If you are seeking, seek us with joyFor we live in the kingdom of joy.Do not give your heart to anything elseBut to the love of those who are clear joy,Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.For there are hopes: they are real, they exist "Do not go in the direction of darkness "I tell you: suns exist."


"I believe in hope, in what is something called radical hope. I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that's why I write fiction, probaby. It's my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r."



"My mother was strong, in all the ways I was weak. She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you will never know."
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