#hope

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

#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

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#hope #optimism #snow #winter #age

We are rational creatures, Professor Jove explained; hope is irrational. We thus set ourselves up for one dispiriting fall after the next. Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope. ↗

— Shalom Auslander

#tragedy #anger

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off. ↗

— Robert Smith

#completely #did #down #doze #hope

I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!! ↗

— Susan Smith

#children #forgive #forgive me #forgiveness #give me

Control thy anger as you control the winds of time! ↗

— Marianne Troccoli

#feelings #hope #anger

If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too. ↗