Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Hope Quotes
All industry must be excited by hope.
He that lives upon Hope, dies fasting.
“Pray, who are you, beautiful creature?” inquired Pandora. “I am to be called Hope!” answered the sunshiny figure. “And because I am such a cheery little body, I was packed into the box, to make amends to the human race for that swarm of ugly Troubles, which was destined to be let loose among them. […]
Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of revelling today on the profits of the morrow.
It’s not the despair, Laura. I can stand the despair… it’s the hope.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that.
We naturally indulge those ideas that please us. Hope will predominate in every mind, till it has been suppressed by frequent disappointments.
Despair in vain sits brooding over the putrid eggs of hope.
No matter how tough things are, Man copes. He comes up with adequate answers from illogical reasons. But the answers work. Last to come out of Pandora’s Box was a gleaming, beautiful thing – Eternal Hope.
