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“We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.” Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because...” George Eliot, Middlemarch

“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.” Bram Stoker, Dracula

“It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“God is always the last resource.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Then, in happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, O my friend, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful...” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that and manage it against despairing thoughts.” William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“So farewell, hope; and with hope farewell, fear; farewell, remorse!” John Milton, Paradise Lost

“there is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“But where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.” William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood...” Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail

“The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Things which are accidentally the causes of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“While there's life there's hope!” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Oft hope is born, when all is forlorn.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Work, love, courage and hope, Make me good and help me cope!” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand—that and such hope as I bring.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“And there is nothing like dreams for engendering the future.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“At such moments I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only.” Albert Camus, The Plague

“It is silly not to hope . . . Besides I believe it is a sin.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasting.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“There is always light behind the clouds.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that 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, The Count of Monte Cristo

“There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lay defeat and death.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” Martin Luther, Table Talk

“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.” Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

“For such defects, and not for other guilt, Lost are we and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“You know this fellow is many-sided, a tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!” William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

“I mean, it’s a good job we’ve got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we’d really be in trouble!” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“The longest way must have its close,—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.” Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

“Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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