"While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Heart Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Optimism Quotes

“Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.”

Source : Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899) "Tender-Heartedness"
“The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.”
“If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.”

Source : Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.96, Random House
“The struggle I went through has value.”
“For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.”
“Nice dress you're almost wearing. You ever think about changing professions?" -Ranger”
“In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross - with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved - injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 252), 1895.
“... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.”

Source : Cornelia Otis Skinner (1948). “That's Me All Over: All the Favorite Absurdities from Dithers and Jitters, Soap Behind the Ears, and Excuse It, Please! Along with Tiny Garments”

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