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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. -Bill Keane
Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly. -Langston Hughes
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. -Emily Dickinson
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. -Tom Bodett
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. - J.R.R. Tolkien
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. - William Faulkner
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - Anonymous
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. -Paulo Coelho
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. - Alexander Pope
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. - Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. - Barbara Kingsolver
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. -José N. Harris
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming. -Pablo Neruda
In a time of destruction, create something. - Maxine Hong Kingston
Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily. - Lemony Snicket
Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever. -Roy T. Bennett
When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope. -Pittacus Lore
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. - Amy Tan
Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. - David Nicholls
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. - Epicurus
It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars. - Richard Evans
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. - G.K. Chesterton
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Francis Bacon
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes - L.M. Montgomery,
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. - Stephen King
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. -Antonio Porchia
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken. - John Green
The first duty of a man is to think for himself. -Jose Marti
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace. -Roberto Bolano
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens -Tony DeLiso
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains. - Arthur Golden
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn. -J.R.R. Tolkien
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man - T.S. Eliot
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. - J.R.R. Tolkien
How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? - Nicholas Sparks
We need hope, or else we cannot endure. - Sarah J. Maas
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know. - William Wilberforce
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. -Victor Hugo
I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world. - Richard Bach,
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. -Abraham Lincoln
If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. - Dr Roopleen
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. - Vladimir Lenin
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.†-Henry David Thoreau
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better. - Yann Martel
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. -Patricia McCormick
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. - Albert Einstein
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. -Friedrich Nietzsche
All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow. - Nicholas Sparks
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution! - Albert Einstein
As long as the sun’s shining, shit can’t be that bad. - J. Lynn
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. - Mother Teresa
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things - John Burroughs
At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never. - Tabitha Suzuma
She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on. -robert m drake
Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love? - Paullina Simons,
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. - Albert Camus
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden. -Cormac McCarthy
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. -J.K. Rowling
With every mistake, we must surely be learning. -George Harrison
But hoping," he said, "is how the impossible can be possible after all. -Marissa Meyer
Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. -C.H. Spurgeon
Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together. -Marylin Monroe
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. -Walter Benjamin
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere. - Sigmund Freud,
It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up. -C.J. Redwine
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect. - Jane Austen,
She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair. -Patricia Briggs
Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be. -robert m drake
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. - Nelson Mandela
If winter comes, can spring be far behind? - Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling. -Tony DeLiso, Legacy
Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks. -Dr Roopleen
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. - Vladimir Lenin
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. -Martin Luther
When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you. - Shannon Alder
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. -Kahlil Gibran
Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken. - robert m drake
Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous? - Ali Shaw
Hope costs nothing. - Colette
A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world. -robert m drake
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. -Barack Obama
And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved. -Anne Rice
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow. - Toni Morrison
Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life -D. Aswini
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. -Jim Henson
Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear. -John Milton
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man. -Charles Bukowski
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct. -robert m drake
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. -Henry Rollins
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. -George Eliot
The best kind of humans are the ones who stay. - robert m drake
I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine. -Elizabeth Gaskell,
I want him to love me as much as I love him. - L.J. Smith
I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is. - Rae Carson
The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing. - Jennifer Niven
The past is made out of facts... I guess the future is just hope. -Isaac Marion
It’s not over if you’re still here,†Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive. - Patrick Rothfuss
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability? - Margaret Atwood,
Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up - David Orr
I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing - Jennifer Elisabeth
Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red. - Eiichiro Oda
