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We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Year of the Flood

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- tha...

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Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.

I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. An...

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It has never been and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant...

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The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even...

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Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got...

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Mark TwainA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

For a little while, hope made a show of reviving-not with any reason to back it, but only because it...

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer

It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travelers. The se...

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I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny ...

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We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will ...

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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that...

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Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak...

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Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of mis...

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There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacr...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.The Autobiography of Martin Luther King

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.The Autobiography of Martin Luther King

Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

The happy ending is our national belief.

Hope is but the dream of those that wake.

And hope is but a dream of those that wake.

Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on ...

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The living dead had taken more from us than land and loved ones. They'd robbed us of our confidence ...

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

GRACEGRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches' the PEACE of God, The LOVE of God, The HOPE of God.

The parched soil of fear needs steady rain.

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Max LucadoFearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear

God never said that the journey will be easy, but he did said that the arrival will be worthwhile

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Max LucadoIn the Eye of the Storm and the Applause of Heaven Two Inspirational Classics in One Volume

In a time of destruction, create something.

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste...

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You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.

Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

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Meat LoafMeat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.

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Michael EndeThe Neverending Story

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still...

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Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt ...

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Oh what a valiant faculty is hope.

Yet our ability to exercise free will and transcend the most extraordinary obstacles does not make t...

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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to m...

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They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might com...

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Miracles happen quietly every day—in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of...

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Mitch AlbomThe First Phone Call from Heaven

What is false about hope?

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Mitch AlbomThe First Phone Call from Heaven

Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'.. .. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends called me. ...

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Keep America strong. Strong in our values, strong in our economy, and strong in our military might. ...

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Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely...

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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope always hope.

The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supportin...

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In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is tr...

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There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and ...

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When God “saves” people in this life, by working through His Spirit to bring them to faith, and by l...

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What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the...

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general bel...

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. Th...

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It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad,...

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He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not ...

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each...

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No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, ...

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And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

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Neil GaimanFables and Reflections

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to he...

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Neil GaimanFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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Neil GaimanPreludes & Nocturnes

CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, w...

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CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, w...

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I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, i...

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Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hope...

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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of bei...

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Nelson MandelaLong Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

You should read something else."Why would he have done that to him?"I don't know," she said.Do you e...

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All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us ...

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She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as r...

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How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine h...

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It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself...

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I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allo...

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Noam ChomskyHegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I'...

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The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the p...

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Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every dete...

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Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the w...

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Norman MailerThe Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe t...

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Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable He...

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Hope like the gleaming taper's light adorns and cheers our way And still as darker grows the nig...

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In all my wanderings through this world of care,In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I s...

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Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the nig...

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To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc...

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Beware how you take away hope from another human being

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be t...

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Orhan PamukThe Museum of Innocence

We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with ...

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