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Friedrich Nietzsche Don't throw away the hero in your soul. Hold your highest hopes holy.
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[[File:Aristotelesarp.jpg|thumb| Hope is a waking [[dream]]. ~ [[Aristotle]] ]]
[[File:AUNG SAN SUU KYI P6060070 02.jpg|thumb|right|There’s no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams. ~ [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] ]]
[[File:Bonaparte premier Consul Gérard Chantilly.jpg|thumb|A leader is a dealer in hope. ~ [[Napoleon]] ]]
 
* When we open up about our emotional challenges, admitting we are not perfect, we give others permission to share their struggles. Together we realize there is hope and we do not have to [[suffering|suffer]] alone.
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* I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, <br /> If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
** [[William Ellery Channing]], ''A Poet's Hope'', Stanza 13
 
* This is President Anton Chekov of the United Federation of Planets, broadcasting on all emergency channels. Do not approach Earth. A signal of unknown origin has turned our young against us. They have been assimilated by the Borg. Our fleet has been compromised, and as we speak, our planetary defenses are falling. Sol Station is defending Earth as best it can, but we're almost out of time. We have not been able to find a way to stop this Borg signal, and unassimilate our young. But I know, if [[w:Pavel Chekov|my father]] were here, he'd remind us all that "'''hope is never lost. There are ''always'' possibilities.'''" Until then, I implore you: save yourselves. Farewell.
** President Anton Chekov (voice over by [[w:Walter Koenig|Walter Koenig]]), [[Star Trek: Picard|Star Trek Picard]] Season 3 Episode entiteled "The Last Generation" (April 20, 2023) by [[w:Terry Matalas|Terry Matalas]]
 
* '''Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.'''
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* '''When [[faith]] and hope [[fail]], as they do sometimes, we must try [[charity]], which is [[love]] in [[action]].''' We must speculate no more on our [[duty]], but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
** [[Dinah Craik]], ''Christian's Mistake'' (1865). p. 64
 
*Hope, I would say, is of two kinds: there is the hope which is a wish-fulfilling fantasy... It can go a long way in sustaining the person in difficult circumstances. It is the kind of hope of Mr Micawber, a famous [[Charles Dickens]] character. He was always in dire straits, impecunious, but always living in hope, waiting “for something to turn up”. That kind of hope is astral desire, and will take you, as it took him, through a whole book, but will not of itself do other than sustain your ability to live life from day to day.
**[[Benjamin Creme]], ''Maitreya’s Mission Volume Two'' (1993)
 
*Hope, in the more [[occult]] sense... is the realization of the inner connectedness of all things; of your life and your daily activity with the cosmic scheme of things. The awareness of who you are, that you are the Self – that gives you faith or hope. Faith and hope stem from the same inner, intuitive realization of who you are, that you are here for a purpose and that nothing on Earth can shake that.... To have hope is to have complete faith in life. It does not mean to say that everything is going to go smoothly. It does not mean that on the outer, physical plane you will have a life of ease... and when you are telephoning people they will always be there and you will never have to try again. Many people think that if everything works easily and smoothly they are somehow on the right track. Following the line of least resistance is not necessarily the right way to live one’s life...
**[[Benjamin Creme]], ''Maitreya’s Mission Volume Two'' (1993)
 
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** We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
** [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], ''Torquato Tasso'', III. 4. 197, as reported in ''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations'' (1922), p. 375-78
 
*Protesting is an act of [[love]]. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying "no" to injustice is the ultimate declaration of [[hope]].
**[[Amy Goodman]] Conclusion, Standing Up To the Madness: Ordinary Heroes In Extraordinary Times with David Goodman (2008)
 
* Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, <br /> Adorns and cheers our way; <br /> And still, as darker grows the night, <br /> Emits a brighter ray.
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* '''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.'''
** [[Václav Havel]], ''Disturbing the Peace'' (1986), Chapter 5 : The Politics of Hope
 
* Unhappy they who raise their hopes upon the shifting sand.
** Mansa to Kwamankra, in ''{{w|Ethiopia Unbound}}: Studies in Race Emancipation'' by [[J. E. Casely Hayford]]. C.M. Phillips. 1911. p. 60.
 
* '''Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope; and few are reduced so low as that.'''
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[[File:Earth Eastern Hemisphere.jpg|thumb|right|HLifeLife and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] ]]
 
* In the factory, we make [[cosmetics]]; in the store we sell hope.
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[[File:Charlotte von Lengefeld - Simanowiz.jpg|thumb|right|Have ''Hope.'' Though clouds environ now, <br /> And gladness hides her face in scorn, <br /> Put thou the shadow from thy brow, — <br /> No night but hath its morn. ~ [[Friedrich Schiller]] ]]
[[File:SVDW (192 365) (5719230547).jpg|thumb|right|Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. ~ [[Walter Scott]] ]]
[[File:Coventry Cathedral Ruins with Rainbow.jpg|thumb|right| Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that <br /> And manage it against despairing thoughts.<br />Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] ]]
[[File:2012 03 30 MGP 9999 47.JPG |thumb|right| The miserable have no other medicine <br /> But only hope: <br /> I've hope to live, and am prepar'd to die. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] ]]
[[File:Miranda - Frederick Goodall.jpg|thumb|right|Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. ~ [[Baruch Spinoza]] ]]
[[File:Freedom tree, St Helier - geograph.ci - 150.jpg|thumb|This [[tree]] is our [[symbol]]. Our affirmation of [[Life]], and everyone in this town gives part of their water rations to keep it alive. We've learned, administrator, that hope is a powerful weapon against anything, even drought. ~ [[Star Trek: The Next Generation]] ]]
[[File:Image-UN Swords into Plowshares Statue.JPG|thumb|right|It is not [[necessary]] to [[succeed]] in order to [[persevere]]. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. ~ [[Leó Szilárd]] ]]
 
* [[Optimism]] is the belief that things will get better. Hope is the faith that, together, we can make things better.
** [[Jonathan Sacks]], ''The Dignity of Difference'' (2003)
 
* Who in Life's battle firm doth stand <br /> Shall bear Hope's tender blossoms <br /> Into the Silent Land.
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* '''Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that <br /> And manage it against despairing thoughts.'''
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[The Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'' (1590s), Act III, scene 1, line 246
 
* '''Life doesn't end just because someone leaves.'''
** [[Sanu Sharma]], ''Lockdown''
 
* Worse than despair, <br /> Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
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* But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth <br /> Are children of one mother, even Love.
** [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], ''Revolt of Islam'', Canto VIII, Stanza 27
 
*Hope makes itself every day<br />springs up from the tiniest places
**[[Naomi Shihab Nye]] Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems (2020)
 
* Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.
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[[File:Nahal Hever2.jpg|thumb|right|Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee. ~ Zechariah]]
[[File:Howard Zinn at lectern cropped.jpg|thumb|right|To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. ~ [[Howard Zinn]] ]]
 
* '''Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee'''; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
** Zechariah, [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah+9&version=KJV;WLC 9: 12 - 14] (KJV)
 
* '''To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives.''' If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. '''The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.'''
** [[Howard Zinn]], ''A Power Governments Cannot Suppress'', p. 270
 
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