#hopes

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#concern #consult #dreams #failed #fears

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight. ↗

— David Kirk

#backpack #carry #else #everyone #expect

Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#attacks #back #carter #continued #damaging

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#cannot #confidence #confirms #designer #dreams

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes. ↗

— Mika Waltari

#does #eyes #heart #him #his

My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. I looked at my love: that feeling which had been my master's --- which he had created; it shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it; it could not seek Mr Rochester's arms --- it could not derive warmth from his breast. Oh, never more could it turn to him; for faith was blighted -- confidence destroyed! ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#disappointment #disillusionment #hopes #faith

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes. ↗

— Avi Arad

#again #being #books #bothered #dealing

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. ↗

— Marguerite de Valois

#cut #does #her #holding #hopes

Spend not on hopes. ↗

— George Herbert

#spend

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds. ↗

— Walter Duranty

#hopes #minds #most #people #problem