"Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them."

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Source : Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.7, Random House

Jerome Groopman

#Giving Quotes #Capacity Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday.”

Source : Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.31, Moody Publishers
“Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.”
“He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.”
“Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.”
“Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.208, University of Chicago Press
“But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.”
“There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.”

Source : Lord Dunsany (2008). “Dreams Assembled: the Collected Early Dreams of Lord Dunsany”, p.336, Lulu.com
“Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.”

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