Stop Hoping Quotes

• I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.

  Yann Martel

  Dream, Mistake, Hands

  "Life of Pi". Book by Yann Martel, September 11, 2001.

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• You'll stop hurting when you stop hoping.

  Guillaume Musso

  Hurt

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• Stop hoping, start believing.

  Nick Jonas

  Believe

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• Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beer, People, Hocus Pocus

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.193, Penguin

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• Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Disappointment, Women

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• Once you choose hope, anything's possible

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting

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• Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop hoping that the awful situation we're in will somehow resolve itself, when we stop hoping the situation will somehow not get worse, then we are finally free - truly free - to honestly start working to thoroughly resolve it. I would say when hope dies, action begins.

  Derrick Jensen

  Hope, Philosophy, Awful

  "Endgame Volume I: The Problem of Civilization". Book by Derrick Jensen, 2011.

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• Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.

  David Deida

  Waiting, Born, Anything In Life

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.

  Christa Wolf

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• Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

  Yann Martel

  Dream, Hands, Survival

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you stop hoping you start settling.

  Valorie Burton

  Inspirational, Hope, Stopping

  FaceBook post by Valorie Burton from Feb 25, 2015

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  Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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• Time grabs you by the scruff of your neck and drags you forward. You get over it, of course. Everyone was right about that. One mathematically insignificant day, you stop hoping for happiness and become actually happy.

  Sloane Crosley

  Necks, Drag, Over It

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.141, Penguin

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• Never stop hoping for all of the righteous desires of your heart. But don't close your eyes and hearts to the simple and elegant beauties of each day's ordinary moments that make up a rich, well-lived life

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Eye, Simple

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• No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Mean, Kids

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• But loneliness, true loneliness, is impossible to accustom oneself to, and while I was still young I thought of my situation as somehow temporary, and did not stop hoping and imagining that I would meet someone and fall in love...Yes, there was a time before I closed myself off to others.

  Nicole Krauss

  Falling In Love, Loneliness, Impossible

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.219, Penguin UK

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• Hell is to be contemplated strictly as a matter which concerns me alone. As part of the spiritual life it belongs behind the 'closed door' of my own room. From the standpoint of living faith, I cannot fundamentally believe in anyone's damnation but my own; as far as my neighbor is concerned, the light of resurrection can never be so obscured that I would be allowed or obliged to stop hoping for him.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Spiritual, Believe, Doors

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1986). “Prayer”, p.266, Ignatius Press

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