Words about Hope

“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 quotes
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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
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“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
~ Oscar Wilde
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To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
~Oscar Wilde
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“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
~Eskimo Proverb
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“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
Albert Einstein
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“In all things it is better to hope than to despair”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?
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“When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.”
~Charles L. Allen
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“Hope is the dream of a soul awake.”
French Proverb
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May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy.
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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
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“Hope never abandons you; you abandon it”
George Weinberg
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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.
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“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.”
~George Iles
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Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
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“Dum spiro, spero (Latin), "While I breathe, I hope"
~Latin Proverb
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“Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.”
~Jean Kerr
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Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try.
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“What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life”
Emil Brunner
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“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
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“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.”
~Emily Dickinson
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“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
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“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
~Vincent van Gogh
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“He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.”
~Proverb
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“Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.”
~William Sloan Coffin
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“Hope costs nothing”
~Sidonie Gabrielle
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“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
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“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
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“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
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.
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“He who has never hoped can never despair.”
~George Bernard Shaw
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“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
~Pope John XXIII
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“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”
~Robert H. Schuller
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“My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.”
~Ovid
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“We must always have old memories and young hopes”
Houssaye

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)”

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