A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. ― Henry David Thoreau

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My only hope lies in my despair.

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. - Emily Dickinson

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Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time. — Lou Holtz

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You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'. It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.

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Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri

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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

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I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything. ― Kamala Harris

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