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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.
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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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"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."
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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 RedemptionPosts: 2689 | Registered: Apr 2000
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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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quote: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.
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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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"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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"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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quote: ..."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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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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"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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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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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!"
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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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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.
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El fin de la guerra Papadió la paz en mi tierra Papadió mi escudo y mi lanza Papadió toda mi esperanza Papadió
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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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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."