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It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or f...

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Franz KafkaDiaries of Franz Kafka

It is entirely conceivable that life's splendour forever lies in wait about each one of us in all it...

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Franz KafkaThe Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see...

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Fred RogersThe World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and ...

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Frederick BuechnerThe Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a futur...

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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love ...

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

There are three lessons I would write-Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal lig...

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You can't eat hope,' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

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Gabriel García MárquezEl coronel no tiene quien le escriba

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow...

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A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a te...

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It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to ...

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what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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George EliotMiddlemarch

It seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master...

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I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65...

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With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

We’re a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we’ll never be stopped.

You must give him time,' said her grandmother;'and you must be content not to be believed for a whil...

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But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope,That one day we shall thank thee perfectlyFor pain and hope ...

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George MacDonaldA Hidden Life and Other Poems

The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken i...

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George MacDonaldAt the Back of the North Wind

I am always hearing. . . the sound of a far off song. I do not exactly know where it is, or what it ...

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George MacDonaldAt the Back of the North Wind

She could now be sad without losing a jot of hope. Nay, rather, the least approach of sadness would ...

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Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words i...

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It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.

A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, th...

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Dream anything hard enough, and it can be yours.

They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one...

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I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious re...

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Hope is a risk that must be run.

NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;Not untwist—slack they may be—these last ...

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Gerard Manley HopkinsPoems by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. H...

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Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of pal...

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Hope is a very unruly emotion.

After all, hope is a form of planning.

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and n...

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It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself ev...

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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes i...

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the fai...

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disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

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Graham GreeneThe Power and the Glory

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailo...

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There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protectio...

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There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, andnot in the daily cares and sin...

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H. G. WellsThe Island of Dr. Moreau

My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in th...

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Suppose, and the facts leave us quite free to suppose it, suppose that the latent sapiens in us succ...

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H. G. WellsYou Can't Be Too Careful

I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined ...

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I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; ma...

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Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

You deny them hope... You are telling them that Jesus loves them, but not much.

If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even...

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This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to lif...

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All's well that ends well.''Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said.Tamaru formed some short...

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Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually g...

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Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want...

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We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believin...

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Haruki MurakamiColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

All he could do was wait like this, patiently, until it grew light out and the birds awoke and began...

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The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone but that life is not worth living without...

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If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use ...

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little ...

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Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came ...

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If there were no life beyond this earth-life, some people I have known would gain immortality by the...

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Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influenc...

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When the sun of consciousness first shone upon me, behold a miracle! The stock of my young life whic...

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It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart becau...

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For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose st...

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Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je ne serai,...

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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the f...

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Henri BergsonTime and Free Will

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

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Henry David ThoreauI to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

Honor begets honor trust begets trust faith begets faith and hope is the mainspring of life.

...the monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some ...

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Henry MillerTropic of Cancer

Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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And in despair I bowed my head;"There is no peace on earth," I said;"For hate is strong,And mocks th...

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Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining

Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which wa...

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Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a p...

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It seemed that out of every tear of a martyr new confessors were born, and that every groan on the a...

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So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignit...

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I don't believe in having one partner for your whole life, but I hope I get married. I want to have ...

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Hope is a light diet but very stimulating.

For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I...

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