What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds read more

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops read more

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair

In all things it is better to hope than to despair

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only read more

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. -Elie Weisel.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by read more

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.