~ Quotations on "Blazes" ~
Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops--at all.

Emily Dickinson

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

Of all the forces that make for a better world,
none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope.
Without hope people are only half alive.
With hope they dream and think and work.

Charles Sawyer

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.
It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Ursula LeGuin

Hope begins in the dark,
the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing,
the dawn will come.
You wait and watch and work:
you don't give up.

Anne Lamott

When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless.
But when you get involved,
you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes
from knowing you are working to make things better.

Pauline R. Kezer

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Thomas Fuller

I feel a strong immortal hope,
which bears my mournful spirit up
beneath its mountain load;
redeemed from death, and grief, and pain.

Charles Wesley

In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

Faith is the bird
that feels the light
And sings
when the dawn is still dark.

Rabindranath Tagore

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Arthur Miller

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand,
or whispers a kind word of encouragement,
or attempts to understand a lonely person,
extraordinary things begin to happen.

Loretta Girzartis

One day everything will be well, that is our hope.
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Voltaire