No easy hope or lies shall bring us to our goal, but iron sacrifice of body, will, and soul.
Next week shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.
Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come whispering ‘it will be happier.’
You call it hope – that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can’t start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It’s like quicksand… hopeless from the start.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
