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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
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.
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.
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?
The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
While the heart beats, hope lingers.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.