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Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowed—even preferred, if only for public relation purposes. In more honest circles, much of this is conceded. Of course, it is understood much more profoundly by beasts in men's shapes who endure the consequences of challenging the imperatives of stability and order.
— Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up.
— Cormac McCarthy
Not only do our trials become classrooms that teach us life’s most profound lessons, they add joy and meaning to daily living.
— Auliq-Ice
While there is life, there is hope.
— Jules Verne
There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains.
— Laura Kinsale, Flowers from the Storm
Chronicling the passage of whales has led me to an understanding that we, as a species, now sand at a crossroads. We can face the possibility of our own extinction and work to avert it, or we can flow the more traditional path of earths organisms and fall blindly over the edge. If there's one trait that characterised human beings, it's the will to survive. This, I believe, will motivate us to work with the natural world rather than opposite it, which is all we need to do to give the children of earth - of all species - the opportunity to thrive.
— Alexandra Morton, Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us
Without the rocks, the streams will lose their song
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Since birth, life is about stumbling into the unknown by every turn. One hopes there is a grand purpose to it all.Few are lucky to encounter the right people, along the journey.
— Kaleb Kilton
Fifth Cosmic Seal:(Liber 003 - Seal of Tuzassotama) One who has received this Cosmic Seal is mystically empowered to proclaim himself as "God, Lord, Universal Master or God-Incarnate" on earth and he controls all spirits of the occult kingdoms.
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
Fourth Cosmic Seal:(Terrestrial Seal 1330 - Seal of Ba-Vara) One who has received this Cosmic Seal (Living Grand Master of the Order of Astral and Terrestrial Hierachy) is empowered to control not less than 100,000,000 spirits and 33,000,000 demi-gods.
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
Third Cosmic Seal:(Shiva Seal 999 - Seal Destruction) One who has received this Cosmic Seal is empowered to control not less than 2,500,000 spirits which depends on the mastership of one's occult and psychic projections. Women are generally kept at this level with a few women exceeding this level.
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
Maybe people like us can’t be happy. Maybe we’re too damaged and the only thing we can do is to learn how to hate ourselves a little less.
— Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon
Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
— Michelle Obama
Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that.
— Kamand Kojouri
The Son symbolizes the hope of humanity, bringing light to the darkness of our material existence, and reuniting us with the divinity of our own higher nature.
— Belsebuub, The Path of the Spiritual Sun: Celebrating the Solstices and Equinoxes
To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
Mumbai is the sweet, sweaty smell of hope, which is the opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love. It's the smell of Gods, demons, empires, and civilizations in resurrection and decay. Its the blue skin-smell of the sea, no matter where you are in the island city, and the blood metal smell of machines. It smells of the stir and sleep and the waste of sixty million animals, more than half of them humans and rats. It smells of heartbreak, and the struggle to live, and of the crucial failures and love that produces courage. It smells of ten thousand restaurants, five thousand temples, shrines, churches and mosques, and of hunderd bazaar devoted exclusively to perfume, spices, incense, and freshly cut flowers. That smell, above all things - is that what welcomes me and tells me that I have come home. Then there were people. Assamese, Jats, and Punjabis; people from Rajasthan, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu; from Pushkar, Cochin, and Konark; warrior caste, Brahmin, and untouchable; Hindi, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Parsee, Animist; fair skin and dark, green eyes and golden brown and black; every different face and form of that extravagant variety, that incoparable beauty, India.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Hope is like a balloon. It seems like it swells up just so someone else can pop it in your face.
— Betsy Schow, Spelled
I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age.
— C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
It’s not by accident that people talk of a state of confusion as not being able to see the wood for the trees, or of being out of the woods when some crisis is surmopunted. It is a place of loss, confusion, terror and anger, a place where you can, like Dante, find yourself going down into Hell. But if it’s any comfort, the dark wood isn’t just that. It’s also a place of opportunity and adventure. It is the place in which fortunes can be reversed, hearts mended, hopes reborn.
— Amanda Craig
There are seven occult kingdoms in the universe, which are the kingdoms of Satan and the fallen angels. There are various planes, zones, realms and centers as well as deities, gods and lords. The Five Cosmic Seals (occult levels) are the universal summary of the 400,000 categories of occult initiations, powers and demons (Astrometaphysical Operations). There are male and female, neuter and mermaid spirits (demons or Cosmic Forces).
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
There are occult Esoteric Metaphysics (the secret and most confidential aspect of occult teachings) and Mystical Sciences practiced by mystical adepts, Living Grand Masters. This is the cosmological verdict of the Order of Astral and Terrestrial Hierarchy universal occult recognition. Exoteric is public occult teachings. An Adept uses the Technique of the Master. Hell is called After-Life-Hallucination. There are entities, spirits, demons, demi-gods, Archangels and other names for evil beings. A Guru is a spiritual Master.
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
Wasting time is living in self glorification instead of glorifying God as God is time
— indonesia123
I wish I could tell every single woman with depression or anxiety or who has gotten herself into a situation that she doesn't think she can get out of, that something life-changing could be around the corner. You just have to wait, it will come, this slump isn't forever.
— Constance  Hall, Like A Queen
You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask for love. If you want anything from the universe, anything from yourself, you must first ask.
— Kamand Kojouri
Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust, he thought, pacing his room as the soundless, vague lightning flashed overhead. In a good season one trusts life; in a bad season one only hopes, But they are of the same essence: they are the mind's indispensable relationship with other minds, with the world, and with time. Without trust, a man lives, but not a human life; without hope, he dies. When there is no relationship, where hands do not touch, emotion atrophies in void and intelligence goes sterile and obsessed. Between men the only link left is that of owner to slave, or murderer to victim.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, City of Illusions
Believe me, the loss of hope is far worse than the loss of limbs.
— Nick Vujicic, Life Without Limits
Believe you can, and you're halfway there.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Just keep hope within you and your path will be lit.
— Isabella Poretsis
The most important lesson life has taught me: Nothing can kill us other than death itself. So, be fearless, take chances, step out of your comfort zone, spread your wings and soar high. Live while you are alive.
— Asma Naqi
Like rain HOPE trickles little by little at a time so that life may spring up when you're parched.
— Tim Liwanag, Trustful Hope Memes
You walk by faith and not by sight, because you do not hope for your future; instead, you envision it with detail, clarity, and confidence. Your expectations for what is to come and for other people are built on solid foundations, creating higher standards and greater value in your life, relationships, family, and friends.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Human ia such that everyone leaves you to your fate during your darkest moments even those you could trust with your life. But in as much as you love and care for them you need to start cutting off all strings that tie you to them and groom those few that firmly stand by you through these times. And surely just as the sun set for the moon to rise, that same sun will rise once again and shine brighter than it used to be.
— Emmoduro
Without trust in the possibilities for your life, where would you be? Where would any of us be? Our hopes for the future give us momentum.
— Nick Vujicic, Life Without Limits
With great emptiness and a vacuum none can fill we push on through the shadows, complied to walk in the darkness and never allowed to appreciate it with the hope of a light unseen but we will still get there.
— Emmoduro
Your breaking point will be a bloody refuge, not a clean slate.
— Christina Hopp, The Morning After Relapse
You must have hope in a better future and have faith in this hope. But then you must forget your hope and focus on this moment now.
— Kamand Kojouri
Sometimes it's easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while you go on not knowing.
— Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here
Seals:The Five Cosmic Seals are five occult Level 333, 666, 999, 1330 and 003 operating 400,000 minuet mystical degrees.
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
First Cosmic Seal:(Devic Seal 333) One who has received this Cosmic Seal is empowered to control not less than 40,000 spirits.
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
Second Cosmic Seal:(Seal of Karl 666) One who has received this Cosmic Seal is empowered to control not less than 160,000 spirits. Many great politicians, military commanders, etc. on earth are at this occult level of operations. This will be the occult level of Antichrist.
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
Where the cheerful childrenof unwritten poems,play all around,you will find me there.
— Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings
Always count your blessings, even if you have to count them through your tears
— Eleanor Brownn
It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travelers. The sensible approach would be to the expect the worst, the very worst, that way you avoid grievous disappointment and who knows with a tiny bit of luck, you might even have a moderately pleasant surprise, like the difference between hell and purgatory.
— Martha Gellhorn
There is always a way forward if the responsible parties are willing to act.
— Auliq-Ice
To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness.
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
History has seen many who claim to be deliverer and saviour of the people. They might come with force and violence and parade their might and splendour as conquerors. The pharaohs of Egypt, Sennacherib king of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Darius of Persia, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Napoleon, Clive of India, Bismarck, the Kaiser, Hitler, Stalin. The story and scene is always the same. They claim to deliver the people from bondage and to establish justice, freedom and peace. They come in might, riding in splendour, dragging prisoners.
— John  Myer, John Myer: A Collection of his Sermons and Writing, #1
Despair is not solid. Neither is joy. They alternate, and contain each other. There is no joy that is not also touched by sorrow, no grief that is not rendered sharper by the memory of bliss. If things move forward in one direction and not another, they do so by rolling there, passing through the same tight orbit, touching here an ecstasy, there another shattering loss.
— Ben Ehrenreich, The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
Courage comes from a surrendered heart,a prepared mind, and a good conscience.
— Deborah J. Johnson
Only to close these eyesto sleep in the lap of loveand stay there forever.
— Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings
(...) ha! what is hope? a butterfly in a boxof demons, and nothing escapes the darkuntainted, a mockery of politics and greedstamped with treason and dipped inmyths and force-fed brainwashinggoing off after a time for the grandmassacre of faith, humanity, and still we search, scorched feetfor life but find only fake plastic treessatirical, ludicrous, and ironic
— Moonshine Noire
Life took longer to reassemble than it did to blow apart, but that didn't mean it wouldn't be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.
— Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven
«Proprio un elfo snob doveva toccarmi in sorte?» le rispose divertito. «Allora, non mi rimane altra scelta che portarti in campeggio, prima o poi, o in canoa o a fare una nuotata nel lago.»Lei lo fissò con la sua più riuscita espressione Scordartelo disegnata sul volto.«Puoi guardarmi come vuoi, ma mai dire mai» ridacchiò lui.«Oh, invece mai è una delle mie parole preferite.» «Scommetto che ti piacerebbe…»«Cosa?»«Il campeggio. Le stelle, il silenzio, le foglie che mormorano al vento, sai, quelle cose lì.» «Per non parlare di orsi, insetti e magari di qualche serpente che ha perso la strada di casa. Mi vengono i brividi solo a pensarci. Sono un elfo cittadino a tutti gli effetti e ho il terrore di tutto ciò che si muove e che non sia addomesticabile.»Lui la fissò con aria divertita. «Incluso il sottoscritto?»Le si era avvicinato troppo e ora la fissava come se volesse divorarla, in modo così sfacciato che, per puro istinto di sopravvivenza, arretrò di un passo. Non abbassò lo sguardo ma per qualche attimo non seppe cosa rispondergli. Non che avesse dubbi che la categoria esseri viventi non addomesticabili e pericolosi includesse anche lui, almeno a dar retta a tutte quelle farfalle che le svolazzavano nello stomaco, ma come avrebbe potuto rispondergli sì? Così gli sorrise a sua volta, pronta all’ennesima bugia.«Sono convinta, predatore, che tu, nonostante i grugniti e i continui brontolii e la tua probabile parentela con un grizzly, sia molto addomesticabile.»Lui alzò un sopracciglio, con un’espressione da schiaffi da premio Oscar.
— Viviana Giorgi, E infine la Bestia incontrò Bella
Hope is a form of conscious dream making
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
They wish to build a new and better world, and I would be glad if they could succeed, and if I saw any hope of success I would join them. I ask for their plans, and they offer me vague dreams, in which as a man of affairs, I see no practicality. Is is like the the end of Das Rheingold: there is Valhalla, very beautiful, but only a rainbow bridge on which to get to it, and while the gods ma be able to walk on a rainbow, my investors and working people cannot.
— Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth I
What am I searching for? Maybe its the beliefs I had as a child, that the world is a nice place, that people are genuinely who they say they are, that life is not simply what it is, where the sun shines and the stars glitter for me. Where am I going? I do not know but maybe I am just searching for those beliefs that lead to a happy ending...
— Virginia Alison
She didn’t know how this ended, she just knew that it needed to, one way or another.
— Ross  Turner, Midnight
One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering in parts, might be undamaged in the west.
— Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven
One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering parts, might be undamaged in the west." "We also serve who live with grace." "If there had been more time, or less, it all would have been easier. If its an hour one can say what one likes. If it's a year, one can be what one is like. A day is exactly the wrong lenght of time to be oneself in, don't you think?" "In the end I suppose we lay flowers on a grave because we cannot lay ourselves on it." "The dead were filthy, half buried, sometimes barely distinguishable from the mud or the rubble they lay in. One didn't understand, until one had seen a great many bodies, the unconscious effort that one must be making every minute simply to keep one's hands and face and clothes clean. The world's surfaces were so filthy that the living touched them only with the tips of their fingers and the soles of their shoes. How grubby it was to die, to give up making that effort." Life took longer to reassemble than it did to blow apart, but that didn't mean it wouldn't be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.
— Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven
When you're alone, you harbour one hundred percent all off the good things. But this also means that you harbour all the bad things. I learnt my own goals slowed down when I was with others, but having shared the good things, sharing the pain, having that friendship excelled what I alone couldn't do. It doesn't need to be logical, friendships are a part of life, and when is that logical? Life doesn't make sense, but you don't have to live it alone.
— Michael Rogers, Seraphic Gate
A homeless with hope is in a better situation than a hopeless with home!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Perhaps you are experiencing 'hell on earth' right now, but you and I are not hopeless. We are not in a desperate state. You don't have to fear any future hell as well. Jesus has the keys already. He has the power over death and the grave. He is alive forevermore! Look to that. Rest on that always.
— Tim Liwanag, Why Jesus Came To Hell
Sometimes people just need thunderbolts. Thunderbolts to climb like stairs. Sometimes people just need a talisman. A promise in the lectern of their hands.
— Matt Ferrara, An Ocean of Maybe
The day hope shall die, perplexity shall kill so many people. In so far as hope is alive, keep hoping!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.
— Orrin Woodward
A Hero: A Moment When You’re Bigger Than Yourself.
— H.L. Balcomb, Credere: "Latin for 'To Believe' that we mature not by age, but by stories." 2nd Edition coming Dec. 25, 2017
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less
— G.K. Chesterton
Together, life can bloom into something unimaginable!
— Auliq-Ice
There was not even any hope for Miss Roach that Mr. Thwaites would ever die.
— Patrick Hamilton, The Slaves of Solitude
Time of failure is a more manageable chunk of time that allows you to pick up speed and momentum, but close enough that you don’t lose sight of the shore or feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the goal.
— Auliq-Ice
Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.
— Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive
— Aaron Lauritsen
True friends don't come with conditions.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
Walking through darkness with thoughts full of colors".
— Prajakta Mhadnak
When the well's nearly dry and you're not sure you have the strength to persevere, fill up on love and friendship, then take another step, and then another, until you reach your goal.
— Liza M. Wiemer
I'm convinced my heart knew who it belonged to, long before I met her.
— Karla Campos
The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.
— Aaron Lauritsen
Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
A mother is a dealer of hope.
— Farshad Asl
You were built for this moment.
— Kierra C.T. Banks
You see a person's true Colors when you are no longer beneficial to their life. But there are also the other onces who burn like candles. They burn until theny give others Light!
— Lily Amis
And hope was an oath I swore never to take.
— Hanna Abi Akl, One Hundred Voices: Volume One
It is lucky that it is not windy today. Strange, how in some way one always has the impression of being fortunate, how some chance happening perhaps infinitesimal, stops us crossing the threshold of despair and allows us to live. It is raining, but it is not windy.
— Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
Religiousity is unself glory not purity
— indonesia123
The human spirit carries a torch called hope.
— Toni Sorenson
New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.
— Melody Carlson, The Christmas Shoppe
Sometimes I think if I could do all the things that I stopped doing, meet all the friends that I left due to time, money and other unavoidable circumstances. Continue all my passions at least once. Then my life would be more justified than today. Then I could be finally at peace at the time I finally leave this world.
— Ratish Edwards
The boy went ahead with the dog, trudging across the sand, maintaining the same lethargic pace. She watched them go. And as she rinsed the sand from the board, she felt restored, somehow lighter. She wanted her old life back, just the two of them, before all the drama. But it wasn't possible. So she'd have to make do with moments like these: perfect and fleeting.
— Samantha Wood
Wishing and trying aren’t faith. True faith must be present in order to give substance to your hope.
— Andrew Wommack, A Better Way to Pray
Maybe it was impossible. But maybe it wasn't. Like Vikus said, nothing would happen unless you hoped it could. If you had hope, maybe you could find the way to make things change. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.
— Suzanne Collins, Gregor and the Code of Claw
The fog may seem thick but the sun will surely pierce through and brighten up the sky. Allow yourself to continue to rest on the wings of God's love and watch yourself learn to soar high.
— Kemi Sogunle
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.
— William Styron
... What of this "despair?" I know it all too well... because up until now... I've climbed up, kicked it in it's teeth, and surpassed it... over and over again just to make it to this very moment!
— Tite Kubo, Bleach―ブリーチ― 74 [Burīchi 74]
I'm just a broken thing you're familiar with.
— Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 2: Come Join Us
The end is never the end. It's always the the beginning of something.
— Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden
It’s time,” Jack said.“Breeze? Count the kids,” Sam said.Brianna was back in twenty seconds. “Eighty-two, boss.”“About a third,” Jack observed. “A third of what’s left.”“Wait. Make that eighty-eight,” Brianna said. “And a dog.”Lana, looking deeply irritated—a fairly usual expression for her—and Sanjit, looking happy—a fairly usual expression for him—and Sanjit’s siblings were trotting along to catch up.“I don’t know if we’re staying up there or not,” Lana said without preamble. “I want to check it out. And my room smells like crap.”Just before the time was up, Sam heard a stir. Kids were making a lane for someone, murmuring. His heart leaped.“Hey, Sam.”He swallowed the lump in his throat. “Diana?”“Not expecting me, huh?” She made a wry face. “Where’s blondie? I didn’t see her at the big pep rally.”“Are you coming with us?” Brianna demanded, obviously not happy about it.“Is Caine okay with this?” Sam asked Diana. “It’s your choice, but I need to know if he’s going to come after us to take you back.”“Caine has what he wants,” Diana said.“Maybe I should call Toto over,” Sam said. The truth teller was having a conversation with Spidey. “I could ask you whether you’re coming along to spy for Caine, and see what Toto has to say.”Diana sighed. “Sam, I have bigger problems than Caine. And so do you, I guess. Because the FAYZ is going to do something it’s never done before: grow by one.”“What’s that mean?”“You are going to be an uncle.”Sam stared blankly. Brianna said a very rude word. And even Dekka looked up.“You’re having a baby?” Dekka asked.“Let’s hope so,” Diana said bleakly. “Let’s hope that’s all it is.
— Michael  Grant, Plague
There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.
— Richard Paul Evans, Lost December
If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
If he's ever loved, if he's even been loved. if he even wants to be. But don't we all want to? Even when you think you don't want to,there's this feeling of waiting in the back of your head. Of waiting for that to happen. To know what it's like and to be swept away.
— Katy Evans, Womanizer
Without struggle, success has no value.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.
— Kamand Kojouri
Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here.
— Kamand Kojouri
God is my strength and my defense. When I am weak, he makes me strong. When I am broken, he makes me whole.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
There is no such thing as loving a child too much.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
Hope is one of our central emotions, but we are often at a loss when asked to define it. Many of us confuse hope with optimism, a prevailing attitude that "things turn out for the best." But hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "Think Positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality. Although there is no uniform definition of hope, I found on that seemed to capture what my patients had taught me. Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye- a path to a better future. Hope acknowledges the significant obstacles and deep pitfalls along that path. True hope has no room for delusion.
— Jerome Groopman, The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...
— Maquita Donyel Irvin
It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
It's more cruel to give someone false hope than telling the bitter truth
— Unknown
The pages continue to turn, and every day I'm a little older, hopefully a little wiser and a lot more grateful. Do I have regrets? I have a few - but not as many as you might think. If it hadn't been for the darkness, I never would have known the light. In life we all take different paths, some more difficult than others, but in the end, all that matters is whether or not they lead us home.
— Richard Paul Evans, Lost December
The hands of man can manufacture many things both penetratingly brilliant and utterly astounding. Yet, despite their amazing dexterity and profound skill they cannot manufacture hope. Such a masterpiece as that is left for the hands of God and a manger crafted by those hands.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We speak of course, of that most precious of treasures,That no amount of wealth can purchase,and no amount of force can secure,That does not shine as gold or jewels,yet is brighter than the rarest of stones,Is filled not with brief feeling,fleeting gestures nor empty promises,But rather of patience and kindness;of humility, hope, and perseverance,We speak, of course, of love.
— Trix Wilkins, The Courtship of Jo March: a variation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
True hope has no room for delusion.
— Jerome Groopman, The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
I often think of life as a great darkened room with a mammoth-sized tapestry fastened to a stone wall. I believe true peace can be achieved not in viewing the whole tapestry, but in accepting without bitterness those portions we have been afforded the luxury to see.
— Chip St. Clair, The Butterfly Garden: Surviving Childhood on the Run with One of America's Most Wanted
If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Marcii hoped she was wrong, though she knew the odds were slim.Still, in the face of everything, there is always hope.
— Ross  Turner, Reaper
Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting them that defines the laugh lines etched until the end of time. Enjoy each moment along the way
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal.
— Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
She does know Harrison prefers men, right?”“Let her have hope,” I said, smiling to myself.He turned his attention back to me. “Yes. Hope is good. Bianca, I-” He grinned wickedly. “I knew you’d give in sooner or later.” He put his hand on my knee and ran it smoothly up my thigh. “You’re finally going to admit that you love me, aren’t you?”I swatted his hand away. “First of all,” I began, “I don’t love you. I love my family and maybe even Casey and Jessica, but romantic love takes years upon years to develop. So I don’t love you. But I will admit, I’ve thought a lot about you lately and I definitely have feelings for you… feelings other than hatred for the most part. And maybe it’s possible-in the future-that I… could love you.” I hesitated, a little scared of the words that’d just left my mouth. “But I still want to kill you most of the time.
— Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
This is where I belong. This is what I have always dreamt of.
— Arun Joshi, The Strange Case of Billy Biswas
He has one in a million chance of being with her, yet he dreams about that single chance every night.
— Anonymous
Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.
— Aaron Lauritsen
Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
Hope is a bird that sings the songs of possibilities from the deepness of the heart.
— Debasish Mridha
The message of Christmas is a message of hope when all other such messages created by men can do nothing more than be hopeful.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Cleave to the common good. We are all responsible for bringing about the time of great suffering, for its continuing.
— Compton Gage
You are judged more by what you do passively than by what you do actively.
— Compton Gage
If one billion of you watch and do not intercede as one million of you assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one billion of you are a billion times guilty.
— Compton Gage
You are judged many times more by what you do in groups than for what you do as individuals. If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.
— Compton Gage
You are judged many times more by what you give assent to others doing than what you do yourself. If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.
— Compton Gage
You are judged more by what you do passively than by what you do actively. If one billion of you watch and do not intercede as one million of you assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one billion of you are a billion times guilty.
— Compton Gage
Justice is paramount. The new judgement is the justice of the hidden time.
— Compton Gage
The murder of a child has no justification, even if the bombs have missed their mark.
— Compton Gage
The starvation of a child has no justification, even if the crops have failed, or the population is too large.
— Compton Gage
Act correctly. Incorrect action cannot be justified by incorrect action. An incorrect action taken to cover an incorrect action is doubly incorrect.
— Compton Gage
You are judged many times more by what you give assent to others doing than what you do yourself.
— Compton Gage
There is nothing hidden in the hidden time. Know that this, the hidden time, is your everlasting, and live.
— Compton Gage
God has spoken to me, without words, to my heart. He has told me that I am to rewrite the future and remind His people's faith and to help keep that faith alive attached with the Holy Bible to Him. God gave me the name Compton Gage. My earthly name is not important. My person is not part of the reminder. This is not an ordinary book, this is not a Bible. The materials of the Third Testament, was organized and re-written by me. I was given a good authority by God. BY GOD ONLY!
— Compton Gage
In all my lives, the only thing I've seen save people from themselves is hope. Hope beyond logic. Hope beyond what the eye can see. Filled with hope, the human spirit is an insatiable force of energy, transcending biology to embrace something eternal. Without hope, the spirit dies and nothing awaits but death.
— Terry Moore, Rachel Rising, Volume 7: Dust to Dust
we talk of plans that are going to happen.we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.there is a sort of comfort in that.
— AVA., this is how you know i want you.
The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY.
— Compton Gage
You are judged many times more by what you do in groups than for what you do as individuals.
— Compton Gage
Now hear of the new judgement. You are judged many times more by what you do in groups than for what you do as individuals.
— Compton Gage
Those who have assets must withdraw them from the markets of loans. Do not accept notes of loan on speculation. The time will soon come when you will gain no profits from the market of loans, and your wealth will be taken by the very few.
— Compton Gage
Remember that you were born with only love and hope
—  never abandon hope.
It is better to sing songs of hope than to sing songs of misery.
— Debasish Mridha
Hope is the beautiful dream of the soul.
— Debasish Mridha
In the new faith, there is only one commandment. It is this commandment, and this commandment alone, that must be followed to end the times of suffering, which are soon to come. FORSAKE USURY.
— Compton Gage
Every living soul in this universe should be given a chance at love – their personal shot at having the most powerful andmysterious thing that ever existed. You could love forever, or your love couldburn short and bright for just a few moments in the history oftime. But however you did it, I supposed the idea was to make it count; to create a story worthy of a new fairytale, a poem,or a new constellation that would wind itself into an infinite thread of light in your name. Maybe that was the whole point of love – to create an eternal story of your own.
— Sukanya Venkatraghavan, Dark Things
I have hope in children. In children and warriors. In children who fuck like children and warriors who fight like brave men.
— Roberto Bolaño, The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen.
— Compton Gage
The inner dimension and the hidden time have already been discovered.
— Compton Gage
It is not enough to be a man... you have to become an idea... a terrible thought... a wraith- indeed- Become one with the darkness.
— Compton Gage
Dedicate your life to solitude and mortify your members which are upon the earth.
— Compton Gage
You have purged your way. You are ready to lead sons of men.
— Compton Gage
You should assume the mantle of your birthright.
— Compton Gage
When The Pyramid falls, the other cities will follow in short order. Nature's balance will be restored and Man will finally return to solitude.
— Compton Gage
Your Maker has rescued you from the darkest corner of your own heart... What he asks in return is obedience. And the courage to do what is necessary.
— Compton Gage
Throughout the ages, the wisdom has been taught. Now the language has changed, and truth is given in the language of science.
— Compton Gage
Hear about the hidden time. Some think the hidden time is yet to come. The Kingdom of God does not come by Observation. It is hidden in the inner dimension.
— Compton Gage
The Kingdom of God does not come by Observation. It is hidden in the inner dimension.
— Compton Gage
The hidden time is an eternity that runs through every moment. It is all-time. The hidden time is a thread, and moments are the beads on the thread.
— Compton Gage
Those of little understanding say the world will soon end. It is the current age that is coming to an end. The end of this age is the beginning of the next.
— Compton Gage
Focus on the end, not the beginning- on the beginning not the end- The process proceeds in the inner dimension.
— Compton Gage
All the truth of God are discoverable through every day life.
— Compton Gage
By studying, understanding and do the wills of the book, you renounce your mortal life.
— Compton Gage
There is no truth without faith. Nothing is proven except to the heart of one who believes.
— Compton Gage
God has permitted the great lie for a short time only. That time is now coming to an end. Believers in the lie! You have been raised on the milk of your concrete beliefs. Now it is time for you to be weaned to partake of the solid food of the new age, the "New World Order.
— Compton Gage
The great lie that science has given us is that reality is material.
— Compton Gage
Science has given us a great lie. It is this lie that ends the current age of faith in God.
— Compton Gage
The great lie is like a sword that has been thrust into the heart of humankind.
— Compton Gage
God is the one subject of reality. Take away the one subject and there is nothing real.
— Compton Gage
The truths of the one subject have already been discovered, but have not been accepted because they spell the death of the faith in the lie.
— Compton Gage
Humankind must no longer permit the lie to be taught to its children.
— Compton Gage
The great lie can only be defeated by the New World Order. The sooner the New World Order is established by the institutions of the world, the sooner the suffering caused by the lie will end.
— Compton Gage
The New World Order is established by degrees. The first degree is truth of the one subject, which follows from the existence and the oneness of the universe, and from the ancient belief that God is all-knowing.
— Compton Gage
It is far easier to move mountain than to move science by this one degree. We have the power to move mountain, if we have faith that the mountain can be moved. It is now that our faith is tested. The future of humankind hangs in the balance.
— Compton Gage
We have the power to move mountain, if we have faith that the mountain can be moved.
— Compton Gage
There is no greater crime than a crime against humanity. There is no greater crime against humanity than usury. The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY.
— Compton Gage
There is no greater crime against humanity than usury.
— Compton Gage
The harder you search the more troubled you become.
— Compton Gage
You have strength born of years of grief and anger... The strength of a man denied revenge.
— Compton Gage
Justice is about harmony... revenge is about you making yourself feel better.
— Compton Gage
Anger does not change the fact. The will to take control is everything.
— Compton Gage
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
— Compton Gage
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. That which is far off, exceeding deep, who can find it out?
— Compton Gage
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, And the reason of things, And to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: And I find more bitter than death, the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands-
— Compton Gage
Your whole being is deeply troubled- personified the vision of a child's purity, lost in the wilderness of an ever-unchanging and imperfect world.
— Compton Gage
Loneliness is your only companion.
— Compton Gage
Only dead surpasses the sufferings
— Compton Gage
You haven't rewarded evil unto them who were at peace with you; nor you have delivered them that without cause is your enemy. But they want to tread down your soul upon the earth, and lay your honour in the dust.
— Compton Gage
Many are they that rise up against you. Many there be which say of your soul, ‘’There is no help for you.’’ But the instruments of death is prepared for your cause.
— Compton Gage
You have not escaped his notice either- you are here by 'a call' not by choice.
— Compton Gage
You are alone. But you seems not afraid- though you weary with your groaning; wandering far off in the wilderness and your eyes, consumed because of your grief; waxed old while you're still young.
— Compton Gage
To be a great warrior is not enough. Flesh and blood, however skilled, can be destroyed... you must be more than just a man in minds of your opponents.
— Compton Gage
I saw under the sun the place of judgement, …that wickedness was there; And the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. …I said in mine heart, 'Who shall judge the righteous and the wicked:' for there is a time for every purpose and for every work.
— Compton Gage
It is right that one must come so far to see the world as it is meant to be.
— Compton Gage
Purity. Serenity... Solitude: What you ought to uphold. But the important thing is whether you believe it.
— Compton Gage
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
— Compton Gage
There is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, 'See, this is new?' it had been already of old time, which was before us.
— Compton Gage
Patience! It is not how quickly you run, but how slowly.
— Compton Gage
You are created invisible spiritually, and invisibility is largely a matter of patience.
— Compton Gage
We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
— Compton Gage
The thing that had been, it is that which shall be; And that which is done is that which shall be done.
— Compton Gage
To conquer fear, you must become fear.
— Compton Gage
To conquer fear, you must become fear - you must bask in the fear of the BOOK... and men fear most what they cannot see- The Power of the Book is spiritual.
— Compton Gage
Death does not wait for you to be ready.
— Compton Gage
Death is not considerate, or fair.
— Compton Gage
Today, death is your opponent.
— Compton Gage
It is not enough to be a man.
— Compton Gage
There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and taken, until there's nothing left but hope, and you've given that up because it hurts too much. Until you would rather die, or kill, or avoid attachments altogether, than lose one more thing.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate
I don’t know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist.Why do we need more evidence?They exist here on this very Earth.Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani’sdulcet words all around you.And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children’s cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice,their families, and their limbs.Yes, hell certainly does existright now, at this moment,as I pen this poem. And all we’re doingto extinguish this hellfireis sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.Tell me: what exactly does that makeus? Are we any better than the gatekeepers of hell?
— Kamand Kojouri
As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.
— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Hope shines like a candle in the darkness. Keep the flame alive.
— Debasish Mridha
You'd think that a redheaded boy with glasses who was named Howard and had an up-down walk would have a lot more to wish for than being friends with me. But I admit I felt a smile on my face and hope in my heart, 'cause maybe wishes really do come true. Maybe some wishes just take longer than others.
— Barbara O'Connor, Wish
The only thing worse than unrealized hope is no hope.
— Ken Poirot
We carry on not by letting go of the worries that burden us
—  but by staying true to our hearts & the meaning that surrounds us.
A dream so vibrant,A dream so blissful;I hold it close to my heart.In anxious nights,And days of hope;These years have passed solely.One day the dream to turn true- If only!
— Somya Kedia
We grow not through the words we read or the lessons we see, but through the love we feel & and the paths we lead.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
The true character of a man is not seen through his choices, but the passion in his heart.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
L'espoir est la chose la plus difficile à tuer dans le cœur d'une femme amoureuse.
— Diane Ducret
Your heart is your life. What keeps you going and what gives you hope. So wherever it leads you, whatever or whoever it lives for. Keep the beat.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
For there comes a day on which we will see a mirror of judgement; to gaze not on man, but within ourselves. what cometh on that day in you? truth or despair? love or hate?
— Robert Vanleeuwen
There was a moment when any hope within me froze solid and I was finally emptied of all energy to fight the cold. And at the very point of that very surrender, when I became convinced that I must bow to a world that would be forever frigid, God cupped the hands of my soul and poured in the warmth of Christmas.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
When love begs hatred & sorrow, show it your heart. For what you sow you reap, what you feel you seek.
— Robert Vanleeuwen