"To hope is to see with the eye of the heart."
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"To hope is to send darkest night into exile."
"Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings. Good poems, like good works of history, resist monocausal explanations for anything. There's not one reason why I am angry or excited or hopeful, when I feel those things. And there's not one reason why President Obama won two elections. And there's not one reason why Donald Trump won the most recent presidential election."
"What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
"I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental."
"Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step."
"Hope opens doors where despair closes them."
"On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning."
"I wouldn't say that my experience making it [the Waitress] was necessarily uplifting, but watching it with an audience, I was surprised at how hopeful it was at the end."
"I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field."
"My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy."
"I don't think that I am hopeful because I have some data that you don't, that I am going to share with you and going to convince you on that basis."
"I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul."
"I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism."
"Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed."
"Love made her patient. It made her hopeful."
"Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope."
"when I am working I immediately feel hopeful."
"Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope."