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He that lives upon hope will die fasting. 
--Benjamin Franklin 

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible 
and achieves the impossible. 
--Anonymous 

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling 
you have isn't permanent. 
--Jean Kerr 

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. 
--Alexander Dumas 

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be 
answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. 
The spring rains will come again 
--Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance: 
A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach 

Listen now to the gentle whispers of hope. 
--Charles D. Brodhead 

While there's life, there's hope! 
--Ancient Roman Saying 

Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. 
All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here. 
--Dante Alighieri The Inferno 

Hope has been and always will be safe. It's inside every one of us. 
--Xena 

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul 
And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. 
--Emily Dickenson 

Hope for the best but prepare for the worst. 
--English Proverb 

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out 
what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. 
Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. 
--Barbara Kingsolver (1955-___) US novelist 

Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have. 
--Unknown 

Hope is a waking dream. 
--Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) 

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to 
be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much 
adversity we can overcome True hope responds to the real 
world, to real life; it is an active effort 
--Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to 
Self-Fulfillment by Walter Anderson 

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part 
--Samuel Johnson  

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, 
sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. 
--Samuel Johnson  

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you 
just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. 
You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. 
--Anne Lamott Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on 
Writing and Life by Anne Lamott 

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings. 
--William Shakespeare King Richard 

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. 
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. 
The important thing is to not stop questioning. 
--Albert Einstein 

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. 
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, 
but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of 
how it turns out. 
--Vaclav Havel 

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 

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. 
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy 

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; 
and the one unchangeable certanity is that 
nothing is certain or unchangeable. 
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy 

There is no hope of joy except in human relations. 
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery