"Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies." -- From the movie, 'Shawshank Redemption'
"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, 'Wait and hope'." -- Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870), The Count of Monte Cristo
"Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action." -- Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
"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
"Hope is a waking dream." -- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
"While there's life, there's hope." -- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Ad Atticum
"Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity
It asked a crumb of me." -- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
"He who has never hoped can never despair." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4
"History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy." -- George W. Bush
"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have." -- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Hope is only the love of life." -- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope." -- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool." -- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Rebel (1951)
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