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Tatiana
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world . . . Either we have hope or we don't; it is a dimension of the soul, and it's not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation.

Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons . . .

Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper the hope is.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It 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

[ October 09, 2004, 03:46 PM: Message edited by: Tatiana ]

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Tatiana
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"Wherefore, ye must press forward ... having a perfect brightness of hope.." 2Ne.31:20
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"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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"I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."
Mohandas Gandhi

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[The Wave]
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"Hope climbs atop of the piano
Reaching out towards the warmth of the sun.
And some man tries to ask her down
Well now maybe that's where she belongs.
'My God,' she said,
'I'm the sunflower that wants.'
'My God,' he said,
'this woman is gone.'
Into the dark,
'Is there anybody there?'
'My God!' she said.
'My God!' she said.
'My God!' she said.
'My God!' she said."

Our Lady Peace

Oh wait. Wrong Hope? My bad.

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"Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies." - Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption
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"Hope Is The Thing With Feathers"
by Emily Dickinson.

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

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It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end.

Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come.

And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer.

Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why.

But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?

That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

-- Sam's "speech" at the end of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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"Hope springs eternal in the human breast..."

Alexander Pope

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Hope is the drug of choice among optimists.

-Trevor

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Tatiana
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"He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything." Arabian Proverb
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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. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."
--Barbara Kingsolver

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"Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them."
--William James

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"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."
--Albert Camus

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"Joy is not in things; it is in us."
-- Richard Wagner

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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for whoso hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."
-- Samuel Smiles

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"An Optimist is a man who looks after your eyes. A pessimist is a man who looks after your feet."
- an Anonymous English Lass

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Tatiana
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"Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope."
-- Abraham Cowley

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"He who does not hope to win has already lost."
-- Jose Joaquin Olmedo

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Tatiana
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"Hope is itself a species of happiness and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."
-- Samuel Johnson

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"What I was afraid to face for so long, what M. is still afraid to face, is the idea that love might be real. I think because if love is real then that means the hatred we both experienced so deeply is real, too. So we both built these images saying "people will like me if I'm *this*" and tried to be them, but of course we couldn't.

God and K. both came along saying "let go of that nonsense and you will find that you *are* loved". I had trouble hearing either one at first, but was eventually able to and able to trust that they were both genuinely on my side... and through K.'s instruction have managed to find God's grace and love... managed to find faith... real faith... in love. A mustard grain perhaps, but that's all it takes, isn't it?"

-Me, earlier today

"And now abide these three: faith, hope, and love"

-St. Paul, a few years ago

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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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..."the story the oversoul tells me fits all the facts that I see. Your story, in which I'm endlessly deceived, can also explain all those facts. I have no way of knowing that your story is not true-but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will choose the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life,and the life that disgusts me-your life, your view of life-is the lie."

The Call of Earth
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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

(okay, that one was not so much about hope, it really just had the word hope in it)

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Or at least she hoped it with such fervor that it felt like certainty.
---Ender's Shadow
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Hope

n 1: a specific instance of feeling hopeful; "it revived their hope of winning the pennant" 2: the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled; "in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope" [ant: despair] 3: grounds for feeling hopeful about the future; "there is little or no promise that he will recover" [syn: promise] 4: someone (or something) on which expectations are centered; "he was their best hope for a victory" 5: United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (born in 1903) [syn: Hope, Bob Hope, Leslie Townes Hope] 6: one of the three Christian virtues v 1: expect and wish; "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise" [syn: trust, desire] 2: be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes; "I am still hoping that all will turn out well" [ant: despair] 3: intend with some possibility of fulfilment; "I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening"

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"And I say this to you tonight, let us not forget. There is Hope!" - The Crystal Method
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" Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."
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"to the lights and towns below
faster than the speed of sound
faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope" -The Smashing Pumpkins

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"Hope clouds observation."
--Dune

[Razz]

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That was beautiful, AK.
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Thank you! I needed this today!
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"There is still hope."

Yes. [Smile]

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Do you know what a triangle is? It is as inexorable as destiny. There is only one shape that can be made up of the given parts. And hope, the illusion of unpredictable possibilities that so often confuses our hearts, vanishes like an hallucination before these three lines. Thus, and thus only, says geometry.

-Don Juan or the Love of Geometry

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And Hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us -- Romans 5:5

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"Hope is the denial of reality."
-Margaret Weis

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Turandot:
Straniero, ascolta:
"Nella cupa notte vola un fantasma iridescente.
Sale e spiega l'ale sulla nera infinita umanità.
Tutto il mondo l'invoca e tutto il mondo l'implora.
Ma il fantasma sparisce coll'aurora
per rinascere nel cuore.
Ed ogni notte nasce
ed ogni giorno muore!"

Calaf:
Sì! Rinasce! Rinasce e in esultanza
mi porta via con sé, Turandot: La Speranza!

I Sapienti:
La Speranza! La Speranza! La Speranza!

Turandot:
Sì, la speranza che delude sempre!

[Big Grin]

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Tatiana
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<tries to remember hope>
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Warm hugs, Tatiana. [Kiss] <---see? And kisses too.

space opera

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I don't have anything to add to this, except to say this: after all of the disheartening things that have been on the news lately, this is a very appreciated topic.
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"Hope is Freedom"

Five Iron Frenzy

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"Peace fills us
By Hope we steer
Our dark hearts salvaged
We live without fear"

More Five Iron Frenzy

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Tatiana
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Se pierde la memoria
todo vuelve a empezar
me olvido de la piedra
y me vuelvo a tropezar
el miedo, el egoísmo
el prejuicio racial
y siempre habrá una historia
para justificar.

Que somos diferentes
no lo voy a objetar
respeto tus creencias
tu forma de pensar
pero algo estoy seguro
y no lo puedes negar
que todos somos hijos
de un mismo papá.

...

El fin de la guerra
Papadió
la paz en mi tierra
Papadió
mi escudo y mi lanza
Papadió
toda mi esperanza
Papadió

-Carlos Vives

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Tatiana
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Bump for President Elect Obama. <cheers>
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I had a dream,
When I was young,
A dream of sweet illusion,
A glimpse of hope and unity,
And visions of one sweet union

-Queen, One Vision

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I missed this last time around, but I have a contribution.

quote:
"Hope is real. In a time of global chaos and instability where our faiths collide, as often as our weapons, hope is real.... There is such a thing as false science, there is such a thing as false promises, I am sure I will have my share of false starts. But there is no such thing as false hope. There is only hope."
West Wing Season 6 - "Faith Based Initiatives"
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Hope is naught but prelude to despair.
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quote:
While there is life, there is hope. And while there is hope there is life."
The Doctor

(or at least as nearly as I can recall. If he didn't say it, he should)

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The Architect: "Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness."

Neo: "If I were you, I would hope we don't meet again."

The Architect: "We won't."

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