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"To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers."
"India just went 3 years with no cases [of polio]. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities."
"People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people."
"Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible."
"...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis."
"Go to sleep with visions of what you love. Let your dream vision marinate overnight. Wake up with your positive, hopeful thoughts in place, ready to guide you through a day in which you step ever closer to the life you dream of."
"The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization."
"In all pleasures hope is a considerable part."
"Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or disasters, can heal or harm, can bring abundance or absence. It is up to your mind whether the world looks hopeful or hopeless."
"We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to talk about how we all might feel on that day of great power, and great responsibility."
"London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful."
"A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness."
"Hope and faith are two intimate brothers; they always go together. Hope nourishes faith and faith treasures hope."
"The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one."
"What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope."
"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 it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come."
"Hope, that star of life's tremulous ocean."
"You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot."
"There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around."
"Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different."
