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A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.
A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
I try to tell people to keep having hope. It's always what you don't know and don't expect that's gonna be so great.
We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.
Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.
Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.
Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.
Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast.
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
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.
At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.
For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.
Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.