Hope

“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”

- MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The Trumpet of Conscience

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.”

- ROBERT FULGHUM

“Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.”

- ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

“Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment.”

- WILLIAM PENN

“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.”

- THOMAS MERTON

“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.” 

- Thomas Fuller

“Never deprive someone of hope... it may be all they have.
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- Unknown.

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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- Anne Shirley. 

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
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- Anne Frank.

“Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.”


- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Hope is passion for what is possible.
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- Soren Kierkegaard

“Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.”


- Unknown

“Now that I've given up hope I feel much better...
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- Unknown

“I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”

- ELIE WIESEL

“Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.”

- FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE