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No nobler dream was ever dreamt. It is surely nobler to be a victim of the most noble dream than to profit from a sordid reality and to wallow in it.
Leo Strauss1899–1973Commenting upon the Aleinu prayer, in “Why We Remain Jews” (1962)
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), p. 375In context
Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948The Power of Now (1997)
- Happiness
We don’t live in our fears, we live in our hopes.
MTMike Tomlinborn 1972Following the Steelers win over the Rams in 2007, quoted in “Steelers Notebook: Turf wars — Natural or artificial at Heinz Field?” by Gerry Dulac in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (22 December 2007)
- Fear
Desperate men are liable to destroy the structure of their society to find in the wreckage some substitute for hope.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Report on the Potsdam Conference (August 9, 1945)
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov1921–2004BBC obituary (2004)
Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 207 (tr. Fairclough); spoken by Aeneas.
- Happiness
Some day, perhaps, remembering even this
Will be a pleasure.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 203 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Jailbird (1979), p. 14
Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.
Isaac Watts1674–1748O God, Our Help in Ages Past (1719)In context
- God
There is⁠—though I do not know how there is or why there is⁠—a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Nature
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
E. B. White1899–1985Letter to M. Nadeau (30 March 1973)
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the one thing left to us in a bad time.
E. B. White1899–1985Letter to M. Nadeau (30 March 1973)
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.
Elie Wiesel1928–2016Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959The Living City (1958)
- Time