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Hope is the confidence of brighter tomorrows. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Pale brows, still hands and dim hair,
I had a beautiful friend
And dreamed that the old despair
Would end in love in the end ... — William Butler Yeats

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope. — Aidan Chambers

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things. — Bill Vaughan

(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart. — Lorrie Moore

Psychotherapy is the art of finding the angel of hope in the midst of terror, despair and madness. — Cloe Madanes

I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs. — Charlotte Bronte

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. — John Lancaster Spalding

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. — Haruki Murakami

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair — Robert Jordan

Hope springs eternal in the town of dreams...and so does despair and humiliation. — Chet Williamson

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? — Robert Breault

There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness. — Rumi

He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation. — Sarah Winter

The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. — Warren G. Bennis

Remember, you are never alone in this world. Never. — J.U. Scribe

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence. — Saleh Al-Mutlaq

Hope is an act of faith. Great faith, great hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is a joyful soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

These dreams just keep passing me by. — Randolph Randy Camp

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep". — Francis Bacon

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. — Bell Hooks

One act of random kindness is enough to transform despair into hope. — Charles F. Glassman

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. — William Cowper

The line between Hope and Despair was exactly that: a line, in the road, — Lee Child

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie. — Nikita Dudani

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair. — C.V. Wedgwood

The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair. — Onyi Anyado

May you live life to the fullness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope. — Alexander Payne

At the time of destruction and despair hope for the better. — Debasish Mridha

I will despair, and be at enmity
With cozening hope. — William Shakespeare

Say a prayer for those who are overcome by despair and grief. Light candles of hope for all in their darkness! — Timothy Pina

If Erik existed and lived life in despair,
We wish him to know we are here and we care. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Jupiter was a chilly, dark and unfriendly tract of land in which no hope lingered, only despair. There she woke up in an oval dungeon. — J.M.K. Walkow

When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope! — Lu Xun

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory. — Lee Roberson

In the dull, persistent beat of her heart, she hears the rhythm of hope. It is faint and thin as a thread, but it is there. — Libbie Hawker

That smelled strongly of misery, which, as anyone will tell you, is a subtle mixture of hope, despair, rancid cooking fat, and men's piss. — Philip Kerr

We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair. — Newt Gingrich

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. — William Shakespeare

For me, I hope last year was the last when anger, frustration and despair ruled my professional psychology. — Margo Kingston

Never look down upon yourself. You are special with special gift. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to. — Thanhha Lai

The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate. — Alan Beattie

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. — Alain De Botton

Prayer is heart to heart talk with the Creator. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute. — Aberjhani

The hope is the best and the worst thing at the same time. — Pawan Mishra

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same. — Bell Hooks

To love is a dare,
when hope and despair,
are gates upon it hinges. — Lang Leav

The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls. — Jason Gedrick

There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair. — Herman Melville

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair. — Homer

It's one thing to face great odds, but even the smallest struggle, if undertaken without hope, looms and swells with the fatal poisons of despair. — K.W. Jeter

Sober Minds give the world a chance. True Love brings you Hope. Blind Faith moves mountains. And the main savior from despair is Laughter. — Lara Biyuts

Hope and despair ignore one another's cries. — Mason Cooley

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope. — Carla H. Krueger

Between hope and despair treads a life without love! — Manoj Vaz

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope. — Nhat Hanh

Hope is the supernatural grace of God for
survival of hard times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse. — Anthony Liccione

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom. — Robert Burns

Hope is the damnedest of all feckless emotions. — Noorilhuda

Magic singers proclaiming hope and despair in the dark. — Charles Frazier

May Lord revive and restore you to good health. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The birthing wolf,
Her heart fed with tenderness,
Gave forth from ripe brown nipples,
Food to feed the universe. — Roman Payne

Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world. — Peace Pilgrim

May all your tomorrows be sunny and bright ... filled with hope to conquer over all your despair. — Timothy Pina

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. — Robert Frank

With positive attitude and persistent endurance, you can overcome any challenge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be
like barbed wire to keep out despair,
hope must be a mine field. — Yehuda Amichai

Souls don't bleed. Light and darkness pour through the cracks until the vessel is empty. — Katie St. Claire

Those who dare try and failure are courageous souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope! — Greg Keyes

Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption? — Peter Kreeft

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair — George Monbiot

But, when he saw that glint of happiness in his father's eyes in the middle of his sentence, he decided that he wanted it to stay that way. — Diyar Harraz

Hope is sure and steadfast trust. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The power of gratitude is everlasting blessings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope had become despair, protestors had become terrorists, love had become sex, music had become noise, and us had become me. — Susan R. Sloan

Life is cold, but I will put on my clothes and wear my shoes — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You say, you can't live without hope? My friend, hope is our biggest enemy. It does not bring realization. It just prolongs suffering. — Stevan V. Nikolic

We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope. — Rene Char

The sky and the sun are always there. It's the clouds that come and go. — Rachel Joyce

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else. — Elie Wiesel

The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy. — James Alan Gardner

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. — Mikhail Bakunin

Desperation is energized despair, and despair is the abandonment of hope. — Dean Koontz

Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!-RVM — R.v.m.

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. — Thomas Carlyle

Show them that hope exists. Show them that there is daylight on the other side of darkness. — Jayne Castel

If you but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would be impossible. — Foundation For Inner Peace

Regret is her companion and the one who whispers to her often. She has even let hope die and that brings about despair. — Donna Lynn Hope

I preach a Gospel not of despair but of hope for the individual, hope for society, and hope for the world. — Billy Graham

As you walk the thin line between despair and hope . . . I wonder what your voices will sound like when you scream. — Takaya Kagami