"That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."

-- Aldo Leopold

#Hopeless Quotes #Should Quotes #Situation Quotes

“I watch my YouTube videos over and over.”
“Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!”
“It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?”

Source : "God Is an Iron and Other Stories". Book by Spider Robinson, 2002.
“It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.
“Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.”
“Sometimes love needed a lift from its guardian angels, to get its feet off the ground. But once it made its first early beats toward flight, it had to be trusted to take wing on its own and soar past the highest conceivable heights, into the heavens-and beyond.”
“Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.”
“I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?”

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