#hop

At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes. But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that day; she listened to every sound, sprang up with a start, wondered that it did not come; then at sunset, always more saddened, she longed for the morrow. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#hope #dreams

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#courage

Promise me you'll never stop dreaming. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#hoping #promises-in-death #wishing #death

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#dreams #hopeless #imagination #dreams

But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses. ↗

— Robert Ardrey

#humanity #dreams

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#happiness #hope #life #youth #dreams

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#ellen #hopkins #inspirational #dreams

...what good would it do to shutter your windows, never dream of rainbows or find hope in promises? Why choose to walk away rather than hold your ground and fight for love? ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#verse #young-adult #dreams

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dreams #hopes #inspirational #life #dreams

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#hope #dreams