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Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world . . . Either we have hope or we don't; it is a dimension of the soul, and it's not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation.

Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons . . .

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, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper the hope is.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Vaclav Havel

[ October 09, 2004, 03:46 PM: Message edited by: Tatiana ]
 

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Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
"Wherefore, ye must press forward ... having a perfect brightness of hope.." 2Ne.31:20
 

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Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
 

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Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
"I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."
Mohandas Gandhi
 

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Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
 
"Hope climbs atop of the piano
Reaching out towards the warmth of the sun.
And some man tries to ask her down
Well now maybe that's where she belongs.
'My God,' she said,
'I'm the sunflower that wants.'
'My God,' he said,
'this woman is gone.'
Into the dark,
'Is there anybody there?'
'My God!' she said.
'My God!' she said.
'My God!' she said.
'My God!' she said."

Our Lady Peace

Oh wait. Wrong Hope? My bad.
 

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Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
 
"Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies." - Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption
 

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Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
 
"Hope Is The Thing With Feathers"
by Emily Dickinson.

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
 

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Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :
 

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It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end.

Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come.

And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer.

Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why.

But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?

That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

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..."the story the oversoul tells me fits all the facts that I see. Your story, in which I'm endlessly deceived, can also explain all those facts. I have no way of knowing that your story is not true-but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will choose the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life,and the life that disgusts me-your life, your view of life-is the lie."

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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

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Or at least she hoped it with such fervor that it felt like certainty.

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---Ender's Shadow
 

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Posted by Grisha (Member # 6871) on :
 
Hope

n 1: a specific instance of feeling hopeful; "it revived their hope of winning the pennant" 2: the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled; "in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope" [ant: despair] 3: grounds for feeling hopeful about the future; "there is little or no promise that he will recover" [syn: promise] 4: someone (or something) on which expectations are centered; "he was their best hope for a victory" 5: United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (born in 1903) [syn: Hope, Bob Hope, Leslie Townes Hope] 6: one of the three Christian virtues v 1: expect and wish; "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise" [syn: trust, desire] 2: be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes; "I am still hoping that all will turn out well" [ant: despair] 3: intend with some possibility of fulfilment; "I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening"
 

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Posted by tern (Member # 7429) on :
 
"And I say this to you tonight, let us not forget. There is Hope!" - The Crystal Method
 

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Posted by Grisha (Member # 6871) on :
 
" Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."
 

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Posted by Grisha (Member # 6871) on :
 
"to the lights and towns below
faster than the speed of sound
faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope" -The Smashing Pumpkins
 

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Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
 
"Hope clouds observation."
--Dune


 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
That was beautiful, AK.
 

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Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 
Thank you! I needed this today!
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
"There is still hope."

Yes.
 

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Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
 
Do you know what a triangle is? It is as inexorable as destiny. There is only one shape that can be made up of the given parts. And hope, the illusion of unpredictable possibilities that so often confuses our hearts, vanishes like an hallucination before these three lines. Thus, and thus only, says geometry.

-Don Juan or the Love of Geometry
 

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Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
 

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And Hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us -- Romans 5:5

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Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
 
"Hope is the denial of reality."
-Margaret Weis
 

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Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
 
Turandot:
Straniero, ascolta:
"Nella cupa notte vola un fantasma iridescente.
Sale e spiega l'ale sulla nera infinita umanità.
Tutto il mondo l'invoca e tutto il mondo l'implora.
Ma il fantasma sparisce coll'aurora
per rinascere nel cuore.
Ed ogni notte nasce
ed ogni giorno muore!"

Calaf:
Sì! Rinasce! Rinasce e in esultanza
mi porta via con sé, Turandot: La Speranza!

I Sapienti:
La Speranza! La Speranza! La Speranza!

Turandot:
Sì, la speranza che delude sempre!


 

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Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
<tries to remember hope>
 

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Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
 
Warm hugs, Tatiana. <---see? And kisses too.

space opera
 

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Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
 
I don't have anything to add to this, except to say this: after all of the disheartening things that have been on the news lately, this is a very appreciated topic.
 

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Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
 
"Hope is Freedom"

Five Iron Frenzy
 

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Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
 
"Peace fills us
By Hope we steer
Our dark hearts salvaged
We live without fear"

More Five Iron Frenzy
 

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Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
Se pierde la memoria
todo vuelve a empezar
me olvido de la piedra
y me vuelvo a tropezar
el miedo, el egoísmo
el prejuicio racial
y siempre habrá una historia
para justificar.

Que somos diferentes
no lo voy a objetar
respeto tus creencias
tu forma de pensar
pero algo estoy seguro
y no lo puedes negar
que todos somos hijos
de un mismo papá.

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El fin de la guerra
Papadió
la paz en mi tierra
Papadió
mi escudo y mi lanza
Papadió
toda mi esperanza
Papadió

-Carlos Vives
 

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Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
Bump for President Elect Obama. <cheers>
 

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Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
 
I had a dream,
When I was young,
A dream of sweet illusion,
A glimpse of hope and unity,
And visions of one sweet union

-Queen, One Vision
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
I missed this last time around, but I have a contribution.

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"Hope is real. In a time of global chaos and instability where our faiths collide, as often as our weapons, hope is real.... There is such a thing as false science, there is such a thing as false promises, I am sure I will have my share of false starts. But there is no such thing as false hope. There is only hope."

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While there is life, there is hope. And while there is hope there is life."

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