"It's a lot better to hope than not to."

-- Ben Stein

#Hopeful Quotes

“Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.”

Source : Gerald Lyn Early (1994). “The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture”
“Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.”
“You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.”

Source : Nevil Shute (1951). “Round the bend”
“Whatever you do, don't smoke.”
“You must stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds”
“And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.”
“An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.”
“Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking, charity on fire, and that is what you should have because a Daughter without Charity is like a body without a soul.”

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