Hopefulness Quotes

• Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.

  William Empson

  Borders, Regard, Improving

  William Empson (1984). “Collected poems”, Chatto & Windus

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• Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “Stay Alive All Your Life”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Attitude produces character, and character produces hope.

  Mark Burnett

  Attitude, Character, Belief

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• My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is a vocation rooted in hopefulness. As teachers we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know.

  Bell Hooks

  Teacher, Believe, Struggle

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.14, Routledge

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• Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Hard

  Norman Vincent Peale (1975). “Positive Thinking for a Time Like this”

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• If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

  Brené Brown

  Perseverance, Determination, Disappointment

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• Where there is life, there is hope.

  Alyson Noel

  Motivational, Hope, Life Lesson

  Alyson Noel (2010). “Dark Flame”, p.191, Pan Macmillan

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• As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community.

  Dawna Markova

  Children, Compassion, Community

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• When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Gratitude, Scent, Welcome

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• There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.

  Jean Giono

  Pursuit, Persons

  Jean Giono, Michael McCurdy (2007). “The Man Who Planted Trees”, p.43, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.

  Charles Baxter

  Sweet, Mistake, Made

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.31, Vintage

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• We should expect hope's reciprocity as a natural flowering of the life of hope. Helping others and nurturing hope is expressive of hopefulness itself. It is an extension of the hopeful self to reach out to others, promoting the connection of agency and the enrichment of horizons of meaning. Hope's reciprocity grows out of the very social nature of hope; we thus frequently see it live in family relations, in intimacy, in love. And so hope spreads. This spreading should not surprise us; like love, it is freely given, fostered, and nurtured.

  Patrick Shade

  Helping Others, Self, Like Love

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• Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about him, and felt, inexplicably, the way one might feel upon recognizing a melody or a voice, that all this had happened to him before and that he had faced it with fear but also with joy and hopefulness and curiosity. Then he descended into his memory, which seemed to him endless, and managed to draw up from that vertigo the lost remembrance that gleamed like a coin in the rain - perhaps because he had never really looked at it except (perhaps) in a dream.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Morning, Memories

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• [I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Support, Understanding

  Fred Rogers (2005). “Mr Rogers Parenting”

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• Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

  Victor Hugo

  Hypocrisy, Facts, Horrible

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Toilers of the Sea: Works Of Hugo”, p.175, 谷月社

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• For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know it truly, and undertake-with our minds, hearts and hands-to restore its abundance. It is said that where there's life there's hope, and so no place can inspire us with more hopefulness than that great, life-making sea-that singular, wondrous ocean covering the blue planet.

  Carl Safina

  Ocean, Heart, Opportunity

  Carl Safina (2010). “Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas”, p.440, Macmillan

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• You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Eye, Writing

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• [I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish boys who had imbued him with the powers of a hundred men, of a distant world, and of the full measure of their bespectacled adolescent hopefulness and desperation.

  Michael Chabon

  Couple, Boys, Men

  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, 2000.

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• The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.

  Patrick Shade

  Weather, Agency, Growth

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• A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere of quiet homes-not elsewhere-I believe that a woman can best rule and save the world.

  T.C. Boyle

  Believe, Home, Simple

  T. C. Boyle (2012). “San Miguel”, p.130, A&C Black

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• I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and dine with you and all the gods in old Rome's Pantheon. It is a strange feeling--no hopefulness is in it, no despair. Content--that is it; and irresponsibility; but without licentious inclination.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Rome, Feelings

  Herman Melville (2001). “Tales, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• Hopefulness is the heartbeat of the relationship between a parent and child. Each time a child overcomes the next challenge of hislife, his triumph encourages new growth in his parents. In this sense a child is parent to his mother and father.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Children, Father

  Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone

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• But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

  George H. W. Bush

  Book, Each Day, Pages

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.

  George Meyer

  Daughter, Long, Parenthood

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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