Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.
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.
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
It is amazing that our souls -- our eternal essences, with all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world -- are contained within these temporal bodies.
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.
Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh There's so little hope for advancement.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.
If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Hope is the thing with feathers -- that perches in the soul -- and sings the tune without words -- and never stops, at all.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.
A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.
I hope that after I die, people will say of me 'That guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.
He who has never hoped can never despair.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.
We're not quite so bumbling and hopeless as you like to think.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
Hope is a waking dream.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
We must always have old memories and young hopes.
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.
I love to go to Washington -- if only to be near my money.
A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Im searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.
I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. . . . Peace comes through hope.
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.