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• To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful amid surrounding gloom, hopeful amidst desponding circumstances, happy in God when there is nothing else to make us happy; he who does this has indeed made great advances in the divine life.

  John Angell James

  Adversity, Long, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 565, 1895.

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• Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land. The fearful by nature would compose an aristocracy, the hopeful by nature a democracy, were all other causes of divergence done away.

  Harriet Martineau

  Hope, Fear, Government

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• We should expect hope's reciprocity as a natural flowering of the life of hope. Helping others and nurturing hope is expressive of hopefulness itself. It is an extension of the hopeful self to reach out to others, promoting the connection of agency and the enrichment of horizons of meaning. Hope's reciprocity grows out of the very social nature of hope; we thus frequently see it live in family relations, in intimacy, in love. And so hope spreads. This spreading should not surprise us; like love, it is freely given, fostered, and nurtured.

  Patrick Shade

  Helping Others, Self, Like Love

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• I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].

  John Kasich

  Opportunity, Thinking, Keys

  "Kasich Takes the Stage". Interview with Zeke J. Miller, time.com. November 11, 2014.

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• We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.

  Richard Rohr

  Growing Up, Taken, Thinking

  Source: day1.org

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• In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.

  Gertrude Lawrence

  Successful, Earth, Down And

  Gertrude Lawrence (1945). “A Star Danced”

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• I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.

  John Green

  Thinking, Nihilism, Rooms

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues of conservation and good agriculture and peaceableness, they find something hopeful in my work.

  Wendell Berry

  Commitment, Thinking, Agriculture

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

  Dave Wakeling

  Beautiful, Mean, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You take your audience through such a story where they have to invest their energy and emotion, and to slap them in the face with, "Well, this is how life is. Bye," wouldn't have been as great as the ending that we have, which is optimistic and hopeful. It's not happy 100%, but it does make you feel like, "This kid may just be okay."

  John Boyega

  Optimistic, Kids, Energy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside there dwells a frail, hopeful butterfly of a spirit.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Butterfly, Rhinos

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have a lot of love to give, and when I give that love and others are able to receive it and show me their vulnerability, I believe that God inhabits that space, which means I basically hang out with God a lot, and that's why I feel hopeful.

  Ashley Judd

  Believe, Mean, Space

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My anxiety about disasters is lower. The more you know, the less scary any of this stuff is. And that's my hope for the book. I want to get people's attention and tell them very valuable and ultimately hopeful information, and you find out nothing is as scary as your imagination.

  Amanda Ripley

  Book, People, Imagination

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm hopeful that after Iraq, those in charge will think twice about taking us down that route again.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking

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• Ultimately, I think people are so hopeful for having some joy in life that is really hard to find. You can't make a living, and the idea of doing one small bank robbery or something, just trying to find your way in a life, finding your footing and ending up behind bars.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.

  Laozi

  Dream, Moving, Long

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• I'm a very hopeful person.

  Jason Rezaian

  Persons

  Source: time.com

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• Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and the danger is so great and the stakes are so high. But I have always resolved that in favour of hope, and actually I'm more hopeful now than I was a decade ago when the solutions were visible on the horizon, but you had to seek reassurance that the technology experts that they're coming, they'll be here.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Challenges, Despair

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Zombies aren't about zombies. It's not about the dead bodies. I think it's a very hopeful subgenre. It says that regardless of what happens, humanity will get through it. We'll figure out a way to survive.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Thinking, Humanity, Zombie

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Decision, Challenges, Levels

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is terrible, there's somewhere else hopeful to look.

  Samantha Hunt

  Terrible, Novel, Short Story

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We still are America though. We're still a country that is a country of social mobility. We're still a country of immigrants. We're still a country with common ancestors. And reviving the civics of America and the idea that we're going to be united, at least not right now, but in some common future, and talking in that hopeful way that Martin Luther King did, that Abraham Lincoln did, seems to me that's the way.

  David Brooks

  Country, Common, Luther

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• President Xi Jinping clearly understands, and I think agrees, that the situation in North Korea has intensified and has reached a certain level of threat that action has to be taken. And, indeed, the Chinese, even themselves, have said that they do not believe the conditions are right to engage in discussions with the government in Pyongyang. And so what I think we're hopeful is that we can work together with the Chinese to change the conditions in the minds of the DPRK leadership.

  Rex W. Tillerson

  Believe, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• It is an incredibly hopeful experience watching communities come together and actually reassemble democracy. The democracy's been taken away from us. But they're reinventing democracy out there in rural Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, in Pittsburgh.

  Josh Fox

  Taken, Philadelphia, Community

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love." It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history.

  Mark Hart

  Beautiful, Years, Phrases

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.29, Franciscan Media

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