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" It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. "

Ursula K. Le Guin

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" The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. "

" Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. "

William Hazlitt

" Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. "

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

" Fashion is so mass-produced now; I hope there will come a refocus on how people see couture. And I would also hope for a new focus on the craft. "

" I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things. "

" We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord. "

" Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. "

Arnold H. Glasow

" One year, my good deed started with deciding to give all my friends makeup from a cruelty-free cosmetics line that I love. I did this with the hope that they would love it as much as I do and end up switching their makeup over to that cruelty-free line forever. "

" The diagnosis was immediate: Masses matting the lungs and deforming the spine. Cancer. In my neurosurgical training, I had reviewed hundreds of scans for fellow doctors to see if surgery offered any hope. I'd scribble in the chart 'Widely metastatic disease - no role for surgery,' and move on. But this scan was different: It was my own. "

" There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope. "

" Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live. "

" Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive. "

" I understand the atmosphere better than I ever did before. You feel the thermals while paragliding. You are in the clouds. Chasing a storm puts you in front of the cloud, not a book. I hope to learn as I do these things. "

" I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join the Labour Club, as I really want to become informed on politics, and it seems to have an excellent program. I am definitely not a Conservative, and the Liberals are too vague and close to the latter. "

" Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression. "

Mariella Frostrup

" 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

" I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope. "

" There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. "

" Hope is a waking dream. "

" I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.' "

Ursula K. Le Guin

" At some points, hope was the only thing I had. When I began my journey toward walking again, I clung to hope like a life raft. "

" I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though. "

" I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster. "

" I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. "

Pope John Paul II

" A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. "

" I try to vote as left as I can. I hope that my paintings will coincide and be far left, but frequently... the painting rebels and goes fascist on me. "

" Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out. "