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Hopeful Quotes

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

Daniel Berrigan (1988). “Daniel Berrigan: poetry, drama, prose”

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

"40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering". Book by Alice Waters, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

"Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

"The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. 1994.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

Ten rules for writing fiction (part two) by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.187, Simon and Schuster