#hop

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#hope #life #age

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#competition #competitive #final #force #hoped

I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#philosophy #writer #age

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

When things go wrong, don't go with them. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#hopelessness #life #perseverance #positivity #life

Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.' - All my old loves will be returned to me ↗

— Carolyn Turgeon

#beauty #cinderella #fairy-tale #french #godmother

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope. ↗

— Gayla Reid

#hope #life #life-experience #memories #old

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#amorality #corruption #cynicism #growing-old #hopelessness

when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#forever #hope #time #age

... hoping that if she just walked down the same street fate would whirl her backward in time until she was once more (fill in your age), when the future was something she had not yet stepped into, when it was just an idea, a moment, something that had not disappointed her yet. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#hope #age