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Hope Quotes


"A star earns the right to shine the day it is born."


"Hope is a delicate thing. A dangerous thing."


"If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain."


"Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit."


"Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free."


"The future begins with hope."


"Hope greets your desires warmly while doubts insult your efforts bitterly!"


"Making a wish is fun to do.Dreaming it out is much fun too.Work, and your wish just might come true."


"If you miss what seems so glamorous; if you miss what seems so fantastic to have, don't worry. It may be just a matter of fantasy to have it. Real things are rare but real to have. serendipity and the vicissitudes of life determine what is real, ideal and what is a fantasy. The real future is uncertain to all."


"Love is the master key that opens every blessings door."


"I want to see the king," I said, after explaining who I was."Wonderful," said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. "I'm glad for you."That was all, and apparently he meant to say no more. "Why are you so glad?" I asked."Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant."


"Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness."


"We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope."


"A flower does not lose its beauty because it grew on concrete."


"I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory."


"They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No one. Only someday he'd see somebody different, somebody to give his things to, somebody who would give him all their things. Yes. He'd like that. He'd know her when he saw her. He'd know just what to say."


"Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man."


"Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going."


"Sometimes you don't lose hope, not because you are hopeful , but there is nothing else to hope for."


"The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated."


"I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more."
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"Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something."


"It is currently said that hope goes with youth, and lends to youth its wings of a butterfly; but I fancy that hope is the last gift given to man, and the only gift not given to youth. Youth is pre-eminently the period in which a man can be lyric, fanatical, poetic; but youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged; God has kept that good wine until not. It is from the backs of the elderly gentlemen that the wings of the butterfly should burst."



"Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home."



"If we will just believe and act accordingly, all circumstances and situations, no matter how hopeless they appear, would change."


"Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she would gaze out over the solitude of her life with desperate eyes, seeking some white sail in the mists of the far-off horizon. She did not know what this chance event would be, what wind would drive it to her, what shore it would carry her to, whether it was a longboat or a three-decked vessel, loaded with anguish or filled with happiness up to the portholes. But each morning, when she awoke, she hoped it would arrive that day, and she would listen to every sound, spring to her feet, feel surprised that it had not come; then at sunset, always more sorrowful, she would wish the next day were already there."


"Nothing is too late. It is only too late when you've completely given up."


"It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there."
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