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In moments like these, offering up his heart at the hour that night flowers offer up their perfume, ...

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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will prese...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

Le ciel était absolument noir, il n'y avait plus d'étoiles, mais évidemment il en voyait une.

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Victor HugoThe Man Who Laughs

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.

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Victor HugoThe Toilers of the Sea

Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still chan...

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Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some consid...

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Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)The only hope for the doomed, is no...

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VirgilThe Aeneid

My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the re...

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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapa...

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Fr...

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Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxist...

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The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of...

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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes ...

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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes...

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Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord," s...

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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

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Wallace StegnerAngle of Repose

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land...

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The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land...

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I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Taber...

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What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, h...

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What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, h...

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The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

As I age in the world it will rise and spread,and be for this place horizonand orison, the voice of ...

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Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, an...

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Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heard why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifi...

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Through my history's despiteand ruin, I have cometo its remainder, and herehave made the beginningof...

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This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of r...

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Wendy BeckettSister Wendy's Meditations on Joy

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people...

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Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffe...

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I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she t...

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Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the yo...

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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of...

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Thick is the darkness-- Sunward, O, sunward!Rough is the highway-- Onward, still onward!Dawn harbors...

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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperat...

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William FaulknerIntruder in the Dust

None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.

First, if you are a homosexual or feel that inclination, keep yourself pure. If you are unmarried, y...

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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought f...

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Hope arouses as nothing else can arouse a passion for the possible.

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the...

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You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is m...

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Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will griev...

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One need not hope in order to undertake nor succeed in order to persevere.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence...

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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much bett...

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Yann MartelLife of Pi

John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is w...

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For a few moments, raising his arms desperately, the Reverend Mouret implored Heaven. His shoulder-b...

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Émile ZolaLa Faute de l'abbé Mouret

After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my childre...

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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