Hopeful Quotes - Page 20

• I think happy and hope is more hopeful when you acknowledge that there's awful things too.

  Ramin Bahrani

  Thinking, Acknowledge

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Interesting to me, at least, is that often you meet certain king of people and you feel, in their company, extremely warm and hopeful that they care about you, but you also think that they probably have 10 other people they put their attention to. You think, "Wow, this person is making me feel so special and like they really love me." But the savvy part of me thinks, "They probably do that to everybody."

  Jessica Hecht

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings. Good poems, like good works of history, resist monocausal explanations for anything. There's not one reason why I am angry or excited or hopeful, when I feel those things. And there's not one reason why President Obama won two elections. And there's not one reason why Donald Trump won the most recent presidential election.

  Stephen Burt

  Presidential, Feel Good, Feelings

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Change, Uplifting, Hope

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• You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

  Rebecca Wells

  People, Insane, Together

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

  Winston Churchill

  Prophet, Disposition, Sole

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the British Empire did. We're now beginning to see the long shadow that it created, so one must be hopeful and say that what's going on in Asia, that what's going on in the Middle East, that all these various areas of conflict, that they will pass and move onto another area. But it would seem that the natural order of things is there is this cyclic behavior of destruction followed by a calm period.

  Roma Tearne

  Moving, Order, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I love you, too." But this hopeful farewell does little to bring peace of mind, even now. Loving you has never been the problem. What's troubling me is how loving you may never be enough.

  Megan McCafferty

  Farewell, Love You, Loving You

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.47, Broadway Books

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• Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Hope, Victory

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Hope, Morning

  "African-American preaching and its influence on US politics". "Religion and Ethics Report" with Andrew West on ABC Radio National, www.abc.net.au. October 24, 2012.

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• But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.

  Edgar Guest

  Hope, Work Out, Spite

  Edgar Albert Guest (1926). “The Light of Faith”

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• Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

  Erik Erikson

  Life, Hope, Insightful

  "Insight and Responsibility".

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• We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Hope, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Penguin

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• Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

  Catherine Doherty

  Hope, Darkness, Human Life

  Catherine de Hueck Doherty (2009). “Catherine de Hueck Doherty: Essential Writings”

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• We live by admiration, hope and love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Hope, Appreciation

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.587

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

  William Sloane Coffin

  Hope, Passion

  William Sloane Coffin (1977). “Once to Every Man: A Memoir”, Atheneum Books

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• Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

  Tom Clancy

  Change, Hope, Men

  Tom Clancy (1995). “Debt of Honor”, p.579, Penguin

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• Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

  William James

  Dream, Hope, Clouds

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• Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

  Walter Scott

  Motivational, Hope, Expectations

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.210

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• The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Uplifting, Hope, Sky

  "The Book of the Bizarre: Freaky Facts & Strange Stories". Book by Varla Ventura (p. 46), 2008.

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• Republican presidential hopeful Mike Hucka-BS is attacking actress Natalie Portman for getting pregnant without being married. It could get a little awkward if he runs into Sarah and Bristol Palin at Fox News.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Presidential, Awkward

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• I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

  Robert Palmer

  Attitude, Thinking, Wells

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• The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

  Rumi

  Interpretation, True Ones, Active

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• As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.

  Sarah Dessen

  Dream, Way, Remember

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.102, Penguin

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• In my 20s, I was more cynical/despairing (even though I still wrote comically), but I often sent audiences home with rather dark last moments. After a while though, I don't want to send the audience home bummed out, or distressed ... I want to see what's hopeful. I'm not overly cheery all the time, and yet I'm not suicidal either. I do think people can make choices that make their lives happier.

  Christopher Durang

  Home, Suicidal, Dark

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