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Wednesday Colloquium #3: Hope
Dante Alighieri: Without hope we live on in desire.
Roger Parkes: While there’s life, there’s a threat.
Steven Moffat: Where there’s tears there’s hope.
Belden C. Lane: When love is assured, every change can be trusted.
the Daniels: When I choose to see the good side of things, I’m not being naive. It is strategic and necessary.
Samuel Johnson: What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Chris Chibnall: Where there’s risk there’s hope.
Proctor Charlie: Trust, hope, courage, faith, love; all are meaningless without some measure of uncertainty.
William Shakespeare: True hope is swift and flies with swallow’s wings, Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
Thomas Merton: To hope is to risk frustration.
George Santayana: To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Joseph Addison: Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Terry Pratchett: There should be a word for the microscopic spark of hope that you dare not entertain.
Tom Clayton: There are really no such things as miracles. We only call them miracles from our very very limited sense of what is possible.
Alan Paton: The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.
Andreas Karkavitsas: The past, no matter how glorious, is of no use to anyone who disdains the present and disregards the future.
G.K. Chesterton:The only kind of hope that is of any use in a battle is a hope that denies arithmetic.
C.S.Lewis: The necessary was always possible.
William Shakespeare: The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
Norman Cousins: The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling…Ultimately, hopelessness leads to helplessness.
Belden C. Lane: The heart trained in poverty lives perpetually in hope of wonder.
Joseph Conrad: The dreams of sentiment—like the consoling mysteries of Faith—are invincible.
Samuel Johnson: The choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
Arthur Schopenhauer: Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Henry David Thoreau: Read not the Times. Read the Eternities.
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Peace is more than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.
Proctor Charlie: Optimism is both a fine and a perilous attitude. It may inject hope amongst the downcast, but it may also minimize dire hazard.
Antonio Porchia: One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Jaron Lanier: Once upon a time I hoped to wish paranoia away.
Alexander Pope: Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure’s smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain; these mixed with art, and to due bounds confined, make and maintain the balance of the mind.
Unknown: Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
James S.A. Corey: Kinder never too leave the wastelands. Safer.
Terry Pratchett: It is the things you believe which make you human.
Brother Them:Is better than perfect possible? Is it possible only because of faith, hope and doubt? Is it possible only because of humanity?
Howard Thurman: In the absence of all hope ambition dies.
Kathleen Norris: In forsaking the ability to change, [we] forsake [our] ability to hope.
Robert Lawrence Smith: If we hope to overcome the ocean of darkness in the world, we must first light a candle in our own hearts.
Rone Shavers: If one can say anything at all, then one well as may mutter into the void. Or better yet, yell, if only to hope for the comfort of an echo.
Samuel Proctor: If I’m the last optimist left I don’t mind that at all.
Brother Them: If I can somehow get past my self-importance I have some hope of finding out what actually is important.
Chris Boucher: Idealism is a wonderful thing. All you really need is someone rational to put it to proper use.
Kathleen Norris: I suspect that those who have known enslavement and the most severe forms of marginalization are the best qualified to judge the quality of hope.
Rabindranath Tagore: I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
Tom Clayton: I hope when I die I start feeling good about myself.
Jack Handey: I hope life isn’t a joke, because I don’t get it.
Proctor Charlie: I hope I have grown to appreciate the limits of my own intelligence.
Leo Tolstoy: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.
Kent Nerburn: I cannot change what is, I can only hope to change what will become.
Alexander Pushkin: I am not in a position to sacrifice the necessary in hopes of acquiring the superfluous.
Rabbi Mark Whitman: Hope itself makes things better.
Terry Nation: Hope is very dangerous.
G.K. Chesterton: Hope is the power to be cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
Brother Them: Hope is that virtue which implies a deficiency in strength as well as a sense of loneliness.
C. Neil Strait: Hope is putting faith to work, when doubting would be easier.
Alfred Nobel: Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
Steven Moffat: Hope is a terrible thing on the scaffold.
James Joyce: History is the nightmare from which we hope to wake up.
Kathleen Norris: Gratitude is one of the first flowers to spring forth when hope is rewarded and the desert blooms.
G.K. Chesterton: Exactly at the instant that hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
Rabindranath Tagore: Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
C.S. Lewis: Do I hope that if feeling disguises itself as thought that I will feel less?
Arthur Schopenhauer: Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Melvin Rader: Art tells us what science cannot tell us; it tells us of our hopes and fears, our loves and hates, our prizings and disprizings, not in the emotionally neutral languages of abstractions but in the vivid, stirring ‘languages’ of felt qualities.
Joseph Conrad: An ideal is often but a flaming vision of reality.
Richard Rohr: An eagerness and readiness to love is the ultimate freedom and future.
Charles Williams: All the poems and paintings may, like faith and hope, at last dissolve; but while faith and hope–and desperation–live, they live;
George W. Bush: All of us are diminished when any are hopeless.
Alvah Simon: All hope lies in one’s openness to experience and ability to change.
Epictetus: A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
Arthur Schopenhauer: A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
