Hope is
the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and
sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at
all.
-- Emily Dickinson
1830-1886, American Poet
To live
without Hope is to Cease to live.
-- Fyodor Dostoevski
1821-1881, Russian
Novelist
Neither
should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life
rest on a single hope.
-- Epictetus
50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Hope is
both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue
inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be
sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is
wounded, trust impaired.
-- Erik H. Erikson
Austrian Developmental
Psychologist
|
|
That
glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their
undoing.
-- Euripides
BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
He that lives
upon hope will die fasting.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
If it were not
for hopes, the heart would break.
-- Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman,
Author
Honest winter,
snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not
uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's
promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter
blast outraging the honor of May -- how often has it robbed
me of heart and hope.
-- George Robert Gissing
1857-1903, British Novelist,
Critic, Essayist
|