Life Quotes, page 138

“It is a human survival trait, and without it we perish.”

“I have hoped as many hopes and dreamed so many dreams, seen them swept aside by weather, blown away by men, washed away in my own mistakes. I used to wonder if it wouldn't be better just to haul off and quit hoping.”

“The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution.”

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

“Unhappy they who raise their hopes upon the shifting sand.”

“Beware how you take away hope from any human being.”

“A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope: you realize you never needed it in the first place.”

“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.”

“Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.”

“The triumph of hope over experience.”

“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”

“Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.”

“Hope destroys pleasure.”

“The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.”

“While life remains, it is well.”

“Hope hurts. That's what you need to learn, and fast, if you don't want it to cut you open from the inside out.”

“Hope only got you hurt. Hope was her least favorite thing of all.”

“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.”

“Hope proves man deathless. It is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.”

“There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.”

“The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope.”

“A man without hope is a man without fear.”

“All things, said an ancient saw, may be hoped for by a man as long as he lives.”

“A holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.”

“But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has?”

“Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.”

“While there is life, there is hope; only the dead have none.”

“Momma said there's only so much fortune a man really needs, and the rest is just for showing off.”

“Jenny, I don't know if Momma was right or if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze. But I think maybe it's both.”

“Now you listen to me. We all have a destiny. Things don't just happen; it's all part of a plan.”