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• The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future of mankind; Orthodoxy gave away the earth into the hands of the state because of its own non-belief in man and mankind, because of its nihilistic attitude towards the world. Orthodoxy does not believe in the religious ordering of human life upon the earth, and it compensates for its own hopeless pessimism by a call for the forceful ordering of it by state authority.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Religious, Attitude, Believe

  "Nihilism On A Religious Soil". Short story by Nikolai Berdyaev, May 6, 1907.

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• In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Disappointment, Long, Might

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.

  Sam McDowell

  Baseball, Drunk, Violent

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• The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.

  Criss Jami

  Romance, Miracle, Hopeless Romantic

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Agonizing, Bread

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved. One response to that is, "Oh well, it's all hopeless. The natural world is getting wrecked, birds are disappearing, the planet is warming and so anything we might do on a smaller scale is meaningless."

  Jonathan Franzen

  Thinking, Bird, Looks

  "Exclusive: Jonathan Franzen sounds off on bird poaching, climate change and “performing love”". Interview with LIindsay Abrams, www.salon.com. April 27, 2015.

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• Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Stars, Play, Shining

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288

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• A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot renew themselves will soon vanish, and with them all their benefits. A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood and at the same time a reservoir of water. When you help to preserve our forests or plant new ones you are acting the part of good citizens.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Children, People

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• Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Attitude, People

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

  Tupac Shakur

  Kids, Thug, Thinking

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• If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Heart, Two

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.133

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• Tonight, I should watch the sun set, and think of the impending darkness as a metaphor for my wasted life: once it was bright, and full of potential, and now it is dark and hopeless and bleak. I should not make the mistake of thinking that the moon and the stars represent slim glimmers of hope, or evidence that there is light on the other side. Even if there is light somewhere I will never walk in it again.

  John S. Hall

  Stars, Mistake, Dark

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• In a very small way, painting addresses the 'Big Questions' to which we'll never find the answers. You do what you have to do even if it seems hopeless.

  Sam Messer

  Answers, Addresses, Way

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• Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Attitude, Optimistic

  "The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results".

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• It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.

  Nick Jonas

  Hope, Trying, Worst

  "Song: 'Don't Speak' ('Lines, Vines and Trying Times')". 2009.

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  No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

  Dorothy Day

  Wisdom, Peace, Down And

  "Singing the Living Tradition" by the Unitarian Universalist Association, (p. 560), 1993.

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• There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

  Albert Camus

  Success, Work, Punishment

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• When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness.

  Kid Cudi

  Moving On, Letting Go, Moving Forward

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• Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.

  Robert Southey

  Heart, Charity, Cold

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.671

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• Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.

  Robert Grudin

  Powerful, Moving, Winning

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary mind, driven by mysterious passions for which another word is neurosis. In getting from point A to point B, the neurotic goes via point Q. It's in that roundabout that people are either completely crippled and hopeless in life, or highly creative.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Passion, Independent, Artist

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• Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Nature, Compassion, Interesting

  "Eight Little Piggies". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Tires to sandals", 1993.

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• Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.

  Jean Genet

  Air, Evil, Criminals

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Children, Future

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• As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel. But if you hope to mobilize your inner capacities for growth and for healing and to take charge in your life on a new level, a certain kind of effort and energy on your part will be required.... It will take conscious effort on your part to move in a direction of healing and inner peace. This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that is causing you to suffer.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Pain, Stress, Moving

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