H Quotes
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“Hope is Nature's Defibrillator (The Sonnet)
Hope is nature's defibrillator that,
Electrifies the heart to unsubmission.
Hope rescues us from the depths of despair,
Hope drags the being even out of cremation.
Hope lights the way when clouds convene,
Hope brings sight when smog sets in.
Hope is the bird that heralds the dawn,
Hope is the answer to all things disheartening.
Never let intellect trod on the sapling of hope,
When things get rough intellect is first to scarper.
The brain needs backbone to trudge through hardship,
Without hope, backbone is first to lose its caper.
But again, most times inaction sets in, disguised as hope.
Real hope sets you on fire, it doesn't make you mellow.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.”
“Hope is necessary as hard work.”
“Hope is necessary for success.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Hope is necessary in every condition.”
“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does it appear that the happiest lot of terrestrial existence can set us above the want of this general blessing; or that life, when the gifts of nature and of fortune are accumulated upon it, would not still be wretched, were it not elevated and delighted by the expectation of some new possession, of some enjoyment yet behind, by which the wish shall at last be satisfied, and the heart filled up to its utmost extent.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous : to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi, His Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies : Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor Dodd
“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.”
“Hope is necessary. It's a necessary concept. And Barack Obama didn't just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes.”
“Hope is never absent. What’s absent is our faith in a reality that’s never absent.”
“Hope is never constant. It will come and go. But a hopeful person will figure out a way to be hopeful again.”
“Hope is never ill when faith is well.”
Source: The Whole Works of John Bunyan ...: Reprinted from the Author's Own Editions
“Hope is never the loudest voice-it's the quiet hum beneath despair, the fragile thread we follow when the world seems intent on unraveling.”
Source: The Despondent
“Hope is no basis for a defense policy.”
“Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before that way is found or followed.”
Source: Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before the way is found or followed.”
Source: Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“Hope is not a dream but a way of bringing things into reality.”
“Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.”
“Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.”
“Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.”
“Hope is not a financial plan.”
“Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.”
Source: Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal
“Hope is not a light; it is what remains after the light has long since faded.”
Source: Starbreaker Protocol
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”
“Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.”
“Hope is not a method.”
“hope is not a plan of action.”
Source: Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age
“Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what's possible.”
“Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion”
“Hope is not a strategy.”
“Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.”
“Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.”
“Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“Hope is not always an organic emotion. Sometimes we have to consciously find it and consciously summon it. And, yes, there are big challenges right now. Maybe those challenges are insurmountable. Maybe we will be, because of social media, incapable of restoring our capacity to have a national dialogue. Maybe because of the culture that we live in right now, we will no longer be able to have conversations across disagreement. Maybe because of unchecked wealth and corporate power, we won’t be able to conquer climate change. The list goes on. Maybe. But we would be the first generation of Americans to give up on this country, and we would be the first generation of Americans who were unable to find the path forward. And I just don’t believe that we are. And I certainly believe that we don’t have to be.”
“Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead
“Hope is not an idle term. Hope is the reality that can and does reveal itself to us at God's choice hour. To hope is to know the secret of achievement.”
“Hope is not an illusion.”
“Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind, as Vaclav Havel says, "an orientation of the spirit." And I have faith; maybe more than hope, I have faith. I think of my great-grandmother, Vilate Lee Romney, who came from good pioneer Mormon stock. She always said to us that faith without works is dead, so I think if we have hope, we must work to further that hope. Maybe that is the most important thing of all, to have our faith rooted in action.”
“Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.”
Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.”
“Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.”
“Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.”
“Hope is not just one single quality or promise. Hope has to do with believing beyond today— knowing there’s a garden of beauty that awaits me.”
“Hope is not just... out in the sky, or not accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.”
“Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.”
Source: Hope In The Dark
“Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can’t short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can’t patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.”
Source: The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga
“Hope is not naive—it is disciplined courage.”
“Hope is not naive. It’s not a passive dream. It’s a stubborn act of choosing the future again and again, even in the face of collapse.”
“Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.”
“Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist. It is the trust that they will not last forever, that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome. It is faith that a source of strength and renewal lies within to lead us through the dark into the sunshine.”