JANUARY 2010
HOPE QUOTES
In all things it is better to hope than to despair. ~Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
Hope is the dream of a soul awake ~French Proverb
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Hope never abandons you; you abandon it. ~George Weinberg
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water,
about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.
~Anonymous
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And
once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can
survive it. ~Bill Cosby
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. ~Oscar Wilde
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. ~ Albert Einstein
Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is
out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is
still that chance all through your life that it will. ~Josh Hartnett
Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent. ~Jean Kerr
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. ~Emil
Brunner
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty
that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. ~Vaclav Havel
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. ~Marion
Zimmer Bradley
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who
have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ~Dale Carnegie
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.
If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything. ~Proverb
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. ~William Sloan Coffin
Hope costs nothing. ~Sidonie Gabrielle
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And
the most you can do is live inside that hope. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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. ~Anne Lamott
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who
have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ~Dale Carnegie
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
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the
fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of
compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. ~Howard Zinn
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
~KALIDASA
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people
walk on it, the road comes into existence. Lin Yutang
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them
but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow
them. ~Louisa May Alcott
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~Pearl S. Buck
My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the
gloomy. ~Thomas Jefferson
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering;
surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! ~
Louise Bogan
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.
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune
without words, and never stops at all. ~Emily Dickinson
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the
ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. ~Gandhi
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
~Teilhard de Chardin
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you
work. ~Rita Mae Brown
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others,
or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and
crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these
ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression
and resistance. ~
Robert F. Kennedy
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