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HOPE

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."
-Mary Kay Ash

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
-Dale Carnegie

"If you have a lemon, make lemonade."
-Howard Gossage

"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. 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."
-Vaclav Havel

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Hope is the denial of reality."
-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Winter Night

"Hope has two beautiful daughters Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are."|
- Augustine

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
-Victor Hugo

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them-- every day begin the task anew."
-Francis de Sales

Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "The rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).
-William Gurnall

"Hope is patiently waiting expectantly for the intangible to become reality."
-Avery D. Miller

"When you say that a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God."
-Charles L. Allen