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I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be. ↗

— Ofra Haza

#continue #cry #depressed #done #energy

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#breach #break #break up #dine #engagements

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. ↗

— William Randolph Hearst

#like #make #might #mistake #readers

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. ↗

— Junius

#holy #mistaken #others #ourselves #persuading

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake. ↗

— Junius

#mistake #never #right #should #wrong

At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them. ↗

— Anna Held

#difficult #here #home #i #milk

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#america #considered #dwell #heads #keep

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#catch-22 #crazy #flew #fly #had

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#far #greater #inaction #making #mistake

Optimism hopes for the best without any guarantee of its arriving and is often no more than whistling in the dark. Christian hope, by contrast, is faith looking ahead to the fulfillment of the promises of God, as when the Anglican burial service inters the corpse 'in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ.' Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#hope #life #optimism #resurrection #faith