“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.”
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“When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.”
“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.”
“All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?”
“Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.”
“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.”
“I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.”
“I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.”
“If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.”
“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.”
“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.”
“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.”
“One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.”
“I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.”
“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”
“Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.”
“I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.”
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
“Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.”
“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”
“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.”