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The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

The triumph of hope over experience.

The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

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.

The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are.

"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves. This is a serious problem. Wars, suicide bombings, and all sorts of other nasty things start from the premise that we can destroy 'evil' outside ourselves without dealing with the evil within.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential.

Th' longest lane will have a turning.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?

To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel to Schopenhauer . . . Even in Kant there were many things that I could grasp so little that given his general acuity of mind I almost suspected that he was pulling the reader's leg or was even an imposter.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

To lose hope in the future is to begin to die.

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself; it is not confined to partial views or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself.

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.

We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration.