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Hope

«When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.»
Author: Anne Lamott | About: Hope | Keywords: pinned, shiny, wriggle, wriggles, wriggling
«What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life»
Author: Emil Brunner | About: Hope | Keywords: meaning, oxygen, such, The Meaning of Life
«What one hopes for is always better than what one has»
Author: Ethiopian Proverb | About: Hope
«When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead»
Author: Judith Viorst | About: Hope | Keywords: affair
«When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you?re in good shape.»
«Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.»
«What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?»
Author: Vincent van Gogh (Painter) | About: Courage, Effort, Hope, Life, Trying | Keywords: attempt
«When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Hope, Joy | Keywords: prosperity
«What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise»
«When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.»