“Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.”
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J.R.R. Tolkien
8 quotes“In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.”
Martin Luther King
7 quotes“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”
Albert Camus
4 quotes“And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.”
Leonard Cohen
4 quotes“There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
Thornton Wilder
3 quotes“For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.”
Elie Wiesel
3 quotes“We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.”
John Green
3 quotes“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
Martin Luther
3 quotes“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree”
Amy Tan
3 quotes“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
Neal Shusterman
3 quotes“Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?”
Thomas Hardy
3 quotes“Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.”
Einstein
2 quotes“The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.”