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Hope

«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.»
«Some of these fine days I swear I'll throw away all my heavy luggage in the shape of hopes, and expectations, and walk the rest of the way with free limbs.»
Author: Geraldine Jewsbury | About: Hope | Keywords: limbs, luggage, throw away
«Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for you. Every time you break up with someone you get one step closer to that person. You should look at moving on as getting closer to meeting the one.»
«So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.»
Author: Mika Waltari | About: Foolishness, Future, Hope
«So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.»
Author: Mika Waltari | About: Hope
«Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes»
«That is what Americans do. We face a challenge -- no matter how great -- because we know that on the other side there is always hope.»
«Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him (Proverbs 26:12).»
Author: Bible | About: Hope, Intelligence
«Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.»
«So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear, Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | About: Fear, Goodbye, Hope | Keywords: farewell, remorse