Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
[It., Lasciate ogni speranza ch'entrate.]

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
[It., Lasciate ogni speranza ch'entrate.]

You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For read more

You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right read more

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try.

Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

The heart bow'd down by weight of woe,
To weakest hope will cling,
To thought and impulse read more

The heart bow'd down by weight of woe,
To weakest hope will cling,
To thought and impulse while they flow,
That can no comfort bring,
That can, that can no comfort bring,
With those exciting scenes will blend,
O'er pleasure's pathway thrown;
But mem'ry is the only friend
That grief can call its own.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

"Farewell!"
For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er
We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.

"Farewell!"
For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er
We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.