#hope

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#hope

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken. ↗

— John Green

#hope

You really saw some?" Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, "They really...exist?" "Liz," I whispered back, "they're not unicorns." "No," Bex said flatly, "they're boys. And they're...good. ↗

— Ally Carter

#humour #series #spy #hope

Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking. ↗

— Ally Carter

#hope

Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#hope #death

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself. ↗

— Will Durant

#life-is-evil #schopenhauer #death

Don't nourish your fears more than you nourish your hopes. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fears #happiness #hopes #inspirational #life

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. ↗

— Adam Smith

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

I inhale hope with every breath I take. ↗

— Sharon Kay Penman

#christ

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever. ↗

— Amy Tan

#teaching