The grand essentials to happiness in
this life are something to do, something
to love, and something to hope for.
?Joseph Addison
In the midst of winter, I found there
was, within me, an invincible summer.
?Albert Camus
To keep the heart unwrinkled,
to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent--
that is to triumph over old age.
?Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Hope is a waking dream.
?Aristotle
I have great hopes that we shall love
each other all our lives as much
as if we had never married at all.
?Lord Byron
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead;
It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
?Pierre Corneille
Hope is a strange invention--
A Patent of the Heart--
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out.
?Emily Dickinson
"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
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.
?Erich Fromm
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise,
which is started out with such tremendous
hopes and expectations, and yet
which fails so regularly, as love.
?Erich Fromm
If it were not for hopes,
the heart would break.
?Thomas Fuller
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize
the wishes and hopes of his early youth,
invariably deceives himself. Each ten years
of a man's life has its own fortunes,
its own hopes, its own desires.
?Goethe
Come, for the House of Hope is built
on sand: bring wine, for the
fabric of life is as weak as the wind.
?Häfiz
Hope is the only universal liar who
never loses his reputation for veracity.
?Robert G. Ingersoll
We are long before we are convinced that
happiness is never to be found, and each
believes it possessed by others, to keep alive
the hope of obtaining it for himself.
?Samuel Johnson
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us
to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
?François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Maybe all one can do is hope to
end up with the right regrets.
?Arthur Miller
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy
encouraging smiles, that teach us to look
behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the
golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
?Susanna Moodie
Courage is like love; it must
have hope for nourishment.
?Napoleon I
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils
because it prolongs the torments of man.
?Friedrich Nietzsche
Man needs, for his happiness,
not only the enjoyment of this or that,
but hope and enterprise and change.
?Bertrand Russell
The miserable have no other
medicine But only hope.
?William Shakespeare
A poor man with nothing in his belly
needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
?Georges Bernanos
You don't seem to realize that a poor person
who is unhappy is in a better position
than a rich person who is unhappy.
Because the poor person has hope.
He thinks money would help.
?Jean Kerr
