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Hope
is the feeling you have
that the feeling you have
isn't permanent.
Jean
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The word which God has
written
on the brow of every person is hope.
Victor
Hugo
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The human body
experiences a powerful gravitational
pull in the direction of hope.
That is why the patient's
hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They
are the hidden ingredients of any prescription.
Norman Cousins |
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Hope
is some extraordinary spiritual grace
that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
Vincent
McNabb
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Hope is both the
earliest and the most indispensable virtue
inherent in
the state of being alive. . . . If life is to be
sustained
hope must remain, even where confidence is
wounded, trust impaired.
Erik H. Erikson |
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Hope saves a
person in the midst of
misfortunes.
Menander |
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Hope arouses, as
nothing
else can arouse, a passion
for the possible.
William
Sloan Coffin, Jr.
If
it were not for hopes,
the heart would break.
Thomas
Fuller
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It is certainly wrong
to despair; and if
despair is wrong, hope is right.
Sir
John Lubbock |
Hope is
itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief
happiness
which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson |
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Optimism
is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be
done without hope or confidence.
Helen Keller |
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Strong
hope is a much greater stimulant of life
than any single
realized joy could be.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Hope is a
good breakfast,
but it is a bad supper.
Sir Francis Bacon
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Hope
is faith holding out
its hand in the dark.
George Iles |
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Refusal
to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
Bernie S. Siegel |
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Hope is
the parent of faith.
C.A. Bartol |
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We all have hope.
Sometimes, oddly enough, we don't want to admit it--to others or to
ourselves--but no matter how bad things get in our lives,
we have hope. It's one of the greatest gifts that we've
been given, for out of hope come all of our scientific
and medical advances -- why even start trying something new
if there's no hope for a successful outcome? Hope is what
keeps us going on those dark, dark nights in our lives
when it seems as if the sun never again will shine, but
we have to give hope its due; we have to let its light
shine in our lives if it's to do any good. We have to
tell ourselves that things will get better, that life
will radiate its beauty in our lives once more, if we but
let it.
Hope never dies in us, yet often we cover
its light, or we cover our ears so that we won't hear it
sing its song. But that's like turning off a lamp when we
most need its light, or shutting the door on a best
friend when we most need company. We were created to be
hopeful creatures, to look at the possibilities in the
world and in ourselves, yet many of us aren't willing to
do so, and we deny that there's even hope in the world,
and once we deny the existence of hope, we start living
dull, lightless lives that serve no one -- ourselves or
those who surround us. To live is to hope, and to hope is
to live.
Personally,
I remember that even during my darkest depressions, I've
always felt the flame of hope, no matter how tiny it seemed to
be. The problem was that all of the negative thoughts
that were my depression kept arguing against the hope, calling
it stupid, telling me that it was unrealistic and
unjustified. The hope inside of me was like the one
person who is willing to stand up with a voice of reason
against a mob, only to be attacked by that mob and left for
dead. Thankfully, it didn't die, or I might have.
When the
voice of hope speaks inside of you, listen closely. The
voice of hope is the voice of God, the voice of all the
wonderful people with whom we share this world, the voice of
truth and reality. It's those other voices inside of
you, the voices of despair and condemnation and hopelessness,
that are the liars. Call them what they are, and give
them no credence. It's hope that springs eternal.
These other things are temporary parts of ourselves that we
have to learn to reject, like someone renting our house who
not only isn't paying their rent, but who's destroying the
house. To restore peace and equilibrium, we have to get
rid of the renter and restore the hope of better days to come.
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Hope
works in these ways: it looks for the good in people
instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be
done
instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards
problems,
large or small, as opportunities; it pushes
ahead when it would
be easy to quit; it "lights the
candle" instead of "cursing the darkness."
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The important thing is not that we
can live on hope alone,
but that life is not worth living
without it.
Harvey Milk |
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We should not let our fears hold us
back from pursuing our hopes.
John F. Kennedy |
Hope never abandons
you;
you abandon it.
George Weinberg |
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There is no hope unmingled
with fear,
and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza |
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Hope is an adventure, a going forward,
a
confident search for a rewarding life.
Karl Menninger |
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Sometimes
our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter.
Who would think that
those branches would turn green
again and blossom, but we hope it, we
know it.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
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We must accept finite
disappointment,
but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Hope,
like the gleaming candle's light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.
Oliver
Goldsmith
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The
hopeful person sees success where others see failure,
sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
Orison
Swett Marden
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Hope and new beginnings are fresh every morning.
It is not necessary
to wait for a circumstance to bring hope.
Hope, real hope, comes when
we lay down our own ideas and plans. . . . our mind, will, and
emotions. . .before God as a hand of cards dealt and say to him,
“How would YOU play them?”
Laura Lewis Lanier
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Hope
is like the sun which, as we journey towards it,
casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles
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The capacity
for hope is the most significant fact of life.
It gives human beings a sense of destination and the energy to get
started.
Norman
Cousins
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Every blade of grass, each
leaf, each separate floret
and petal, is an inscription speaking of hope.
Richard Jefferies
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.
Hope is the dream of a waking person.
Pliny the Elder |
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