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Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are fluttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your pa...

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Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

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AberjhaniCollected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.--from The Light, That Never Dies

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

How many fears came between us?Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hellrained smoldering pus from skie...

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too...

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The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds an...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out o...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibili...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-c...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.

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AberjhaniThe River of Winged Dreams

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dea...

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Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its...

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This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made ...

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off t...

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My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ...

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Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly...

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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted ...

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There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have beenSince Good, though on...

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When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo m...

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We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is ...

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When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary thin...

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One always has hope for human nature

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surren...

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Though anger seems a pessimistic response to a situation, it is at root a symptom of hope: the hope ...

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It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless ...

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Alain de BottonReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our plane...

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Alain de BottonReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Hei...

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Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

There is so much sttuborn hope in a human heart.

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Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus

There is do much sttuborn hope in a human heart.

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Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

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Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of...

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At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt...

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We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want...

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The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill u...

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My girls are great at making fun of Dad. They're never impressed with anything I do. I love that. I ...

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No wise forward look can ignore the possibility of many sorrows and the certainty of some. Hope has ...

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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast Man never is but always to be blest.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, an...

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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with a...

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All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all ...

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Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and ho...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt wh...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.

Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seei...

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I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and pass...

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Aunt Elspeth and Auntie Grace stood in their doorway, ceremoniously, to watch me go, and I felt as i...

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Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.

The mountain of despair has dwindled, and the stone of hope has size and shape, and can be fondled b...

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As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells ...

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There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the huma...

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Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How ...

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Amy TanThe Joy Luck Club

Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of h...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to...

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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope...

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Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying yo...

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Amy TanThe Hundred Secret Senses

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change yo...

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Amy TanThe Hundred Secret Senses

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...

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It's not that we had no heart or eyes for pain. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to ...

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Amy TanThe Joy Luck Club

But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again.

What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as th...

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...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out toward...

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A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor ea...

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My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really...

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I've ceased to smile long ago, The bitter winds now chill my lips, Another hope was just let go, Ano...

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But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sp...

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Oh, Youth may listen patiently,While sad Experience tells her tale,But Doubt sits smiling in his eye...

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Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldnes...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living ...

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Anne CarsonEros the Bittersweet

Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigg...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is th...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

It gets darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.” That line came back to me, from out of nowhere, ...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and f...

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Maybe we do go home, finally.

Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secr...

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Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally...

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