One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
John BurroughsTags: motivational hope character
There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.
Betty SmithIf personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"--it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: hope personality sensitivity romanticism promise responsiveness
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: on-writing hope
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: hope
Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.
Victor HugoYou should read something else."
Why would he have done that to him?"
I don't know," she said.
Do you ever feel like Job?"
She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes.
Sometimes."
But you haven't lost your faith?"
No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine.
Is it because you think you might get better?"
No," she said,"its because its the only thing I have left.
Tags: life death faith hope job
Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.
Jürgen MoltmannNo, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
Sigmund FreudTags: science inspirational future progress knowledge hope understanding illusion gains
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