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"Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him."
"Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless."
"I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off."
"I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road."
"Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society."
"I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it."
"I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively."
"I came to a terrifying place in my life where I knew I was hopeless. My only hope was to change....or die."
"But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary."
"Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless."
"I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless."
"There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around."
"English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be."
"The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else."
"I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got."
"Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . ."
"Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without."
"Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope."
"The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you."
"When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N."
