The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
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The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]
I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole; I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man.
In spite of everything life is not without hope.
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.
The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.
Still desiring, we live without hope.
I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.
Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.
Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life
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