Jerry Garcia
Musician
"Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!"
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Hoping For The Best
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Lee Child
Author
"Hope for the best, plan for the worst."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better."
Kurt Cobain
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got."
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"...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth."
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"Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him."
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"Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like it’s not their own, all they have to do is take a step back, and hope for the best."
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"We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst."
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