Hope and Optimism

This intimate alliance—which for me makes the true man—of pessimism of the intelligence, which penetrates every illusion, and optimism of the will.

Be near me when my light is low.

 

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

a hopeless case if—listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

The experience of drought and dust storms remains central to the psychology of the prairie west; more than the intermittent affluence of postwar decades, it tints a westerner’s outlook on life. He continues to live in next year country, where he smokes a pack of hope a day.

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

There are three lessons I would write, Three words as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light Upon the hearts of men.

 

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.

Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

Look for a lovely thing and you will find it, / It is not far— / It never will be far.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.

 

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Hope is not victory.

“Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,” The shade replied— “If you seek for Eldorado!”

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.