We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
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More on Hope
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
While there's life, there's hope.
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
