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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which read more
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only read more
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope
For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.
For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. . -Martin Luther King.
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. . -Martin Luther King.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the read more
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.
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.