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| Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld |
| Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. ~ Christopher Reeve |
| Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll |
| Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus |
| Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ~ Vincent McNabb |
| In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, |
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~ Author Unknown |
| There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing – but we all do and call it Hope. ~ Edgar Howe |
| Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. ~ Samuel Johnson |
| Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all. ~ Emily Dickinson |
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| 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. ~ Anne Lamott |
| All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden. ~ Terri Guillemets |
The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
~ William Shakespeare, |
| The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ~ Marian Zimmer Bradley |
| You’ve gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less. ~ Author Unknown |
| Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| Lord save us all from… a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~ Mark Twain |
| Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~ George Iles |
| When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. ~ Author Unknown |
| If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ~ Eric Bentley |
| The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~ Thomas Hardy |
| Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. ~ Norman Cousins |
| Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. ~ Don Quixote |
It’s all one thing – both tend into one scope -
To live upon Tobacco and on Hope,
The one’s but smoke, the other is but wind.
~ Sir Robert Aytoun of Kincaldie |
| Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ~ Samuel Johnson |
| Hope is the physician of each misery. ~ Irish Proverb |
| Hope deceives more men than cunning does. ~ Vauvenargues, |
| Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. ~ Ouida |
| It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ~ Eric Hoffer |