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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.»
«This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you»
Author: Don McLean | About: Despair, Hope, Survival
«To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.»
Author: Gerald Vann | About: Help, Hope, Responsibility
«To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates»
«To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing»
Author: Raymond Williams | About: Hope | Keywords: convincing, despair, radical
«To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.»
Author: Emily Dickinson (Poet) | About: Hope | Keywords: birth, desperate, lifetime, not yet, ready
«Those who wish to sing always find a song.»
Author: Proverb | About: Hope | Keywords: sing, song
«Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this»
«To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.»
«True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Hope | Keywords: flies, swallow, swift