Generosity - Quotes

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give? - Jack Kornfield

Be just before you are generous. - Unknown

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed. - Unknown

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do. - Kahil Gibran

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness. - The Dalai Lama

It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need. - Allan Lokos

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. - Alexander Pope

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left. - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. - Frank A. Clark

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. - Margaret Cho

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. - Simone de Beauvoir

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. - Albert Camus

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth. - Mark Twain

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. - Mother Theresa

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; for everything you gain, you lose something else. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge. - Tom Peters

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. - Terry Pratchett 

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. - Charles Wadsworth

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. - Arthur Ashe

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It’s good to be silly at the right moment. - Horatius

All Puns Intended

Q: What do you call a sleeping bull?
A: A Bulldozer!

Q: Which side of a cow has the most hair?
A: The outside!

Q: How do you turn a dishwasher into a snowblower?
A: Give mom a shovel.

Q: How do you make a slow horse fast?
A: Stop feeding him.

Q. What do you call cheese that does not belong to you?
A. Nacho cheese!

Q: What is the difference between deer nuts and beer nuts?
A: Beer nuts are a dollar twenty-five and deer nuts are under a buck!

Q: What do you call 100 rabbits side by side walking backwards?
A: A receding hare line.

Q: A rider goes to town on Friday. He stays for three night and comes home on Friday. How is that possible?
A: His horse is named Friday!

Duck walks into a drugstore and says, "Gimme some chapstick and put it on my bill."

A cowboy was asked if his boots were Tony Lamas. He replied, "Heck no, they're mine."

Genius - Quotes

A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind. - William James

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot. - Charles Bukowski

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows. - Havelock Ellis

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. - Robertson Davies

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race. - Jean de La Bruyere

Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense. - Josh Billings

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be. - Fluke Greville

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. - W. H. Auden

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert

Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honoured, found it honourable to own their benefactor. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Genius holds its universal dominion because it touches the deepest suggestions and utters the multiform experiences of a common nature. - E. H. Chapin

Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart. - Henry Ward Beecher

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Genius is experience. Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives. Some are older souls than others, and so they know more. - Henry Ford

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance. - Eric Lau

Genius is mainly an affair of energy. - Matthew Arnold

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. - E. B. White

Genius is naught but a greater aptitude for patience. - Comte de Buffon

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it – so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. - Elbert Hubbard

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. - Thomas Alva Edison

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. - George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. - Denis Diderot

Genius is talent set on fire by courage. - Henry van Dyke

Genius is the ability to receive from the universe. - I Ching

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. - C.W Ceran

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity – its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling. - E. H. Chapin

Genius makes its observations in short hand; talent writes them out at length. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. - William James

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers. - Robert Graves

Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine. - Benjamin Franklin

Genius begins great works; labour alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. - Elbert Hubbard

Genius is the capacity for taking infinite pains. - Thomas Carlyle

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. - William James

GENIUS, like a planet, takes a wide circuit through the pure expanse of nature, and visits not regions only, but whole worlds, which SENSE does not know to exist. - Fluke Greville

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. - William Hazlitt

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful. - Pablo Picasso

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. - George Henry Lewes

Maybe that was what genius was: the knack of seeing the obvious through its obscure curtain of irrelevancies. - K. J. Parker

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject at hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night, it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit if genius. It is the fruit of labour and thought. - Alexander Hamilton

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius. - Henri-Frederic Amiel

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go into the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

No great genius is without an admixture of madness. - Aristotle

One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd. - Carl Jung

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. - Eliza Cook

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. - Denis Diderot

People are often dazzled by the show of genius by others, not knowing that they too have it somewhere in themselves. - Unknown

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. - Benjamin Disraeli

Society has come to be somewhat perversely suspicious of the genius, almost as if there is something rather unjust about being unusually speedy in a person’s mental growth. - Unknown

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. - Sherlock Holmes
The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein

Sometimes a single word, spoken by the voice of genius, goes far into the heart. A hint, a suggestion, an undefined delicacy of expression, teaches us more than we gather from volumes of less gifted men. - William E. Channing

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen. - William Hazlitt

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honoured so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. - Charles Caleb Colton

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. - Louis Aragon

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. - Unknown

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley

The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope – we must hope – that man’s own creation, man’s own genius, will not destroy him. - Albert Einstein

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius. - Amy Lowell

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius. - Arthur Helps

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man – but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded. - James Russell Lowell

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. - Aristotle

These are the prerogatives of genius: To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things. - Ambrose Bierce

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others. - Mark Twain

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius – the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. - Isaac D’Israeli

To wake up the genius within your mind, you must first believe there is a genius residing there. - Unknown

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. - Abraham Lincoln

We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. - Saul Bellow

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people’s models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. - Unknown

Who in the same given time can produce more than many others, has vigour; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. - Johann Caspar Lavater

Quote Worthy

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in  yourself. - Lucille Ball

The social fabric of a well-established nation is tough stuff. It can be pulled around and stretched a considerable distance before it breaks. But when the final rupture comes, the damage done is beyond repair. - H. W. Prentis

 By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there. - William Wordsworth

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather. - John William Gardner

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. - Mark Twain

Hope - Quotes

A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope. - Epictetus 

Any little thing can give hope, like a candle in the dark.  - Christiaan Mostert 

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective. - Jurgen Moltmann

As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. - Hong Kong Proverb

Better hope deferred than none. - Samuel Beckett

Blind hope faces a blank wall waiting for a door in it to open. Doors might be nearby, but blind hope keeps you from locating them. - Rebecca Solnit

But what is hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. - Lord Bryon

Do not let go of hope. Hope gives you the strength to keep going when you feel like giving up. Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. - Unknown

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope. - Martin Luther King Jr

Every dead hope is a phantom that grimaces over its tomb. - Edwin Leibfreed

False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them. - Jerome Groopman

False hopes are more dangerous than fears. - J. R. R. Rolkien

Glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing. - Euripedes

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. - Norman Mailer

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. - Benjamin Franklin

He who has never hoped can never despair. - George Bernard Shaw

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. - Anne Lamott\

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic. - Laini Taylor

Hope deceives more men than cunning can. - Marquis de Vauvenargues

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them. - Jerome Groopman

Hope is a beautiful thing. It gives us peace and strength, and keeps us going when all seems lost. Accepting what you cannot change doesn't mean you have given up on hope. It just means you have to focus your hope on more humanly tangible and attainable goals. - Julie Donner Andersen

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Francis Bacon

Hope is delicate suffering. - Amiri Baraka

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. - Samuel Johnson

Hope is not a strategy. - Rick Page

Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky … hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency. - Rebecca Solnit

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. - Vaclav Havel

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities. - Gene Wolfe

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. - Barbara Kingsolver

Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. - Desmond Tutu

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive… If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired. - Erik Homburger Erikson

Hope is fragile and needs to be tended and renewed. -  Patric Shade 

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. - Lin Yutang

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us ... It lends promise to the future and purpose to the past. It turns discouragement to determination. - Samuel smiles

Hope is medicine for a soul that’s sick and tired. - Eric Swensson

Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion. - Thomas Fuller

Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings. - Edward S. Ame

Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn’t come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will. - Josh Hartnett

Hope never abandons you; you abandon it. - George Weinberg 

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. - George Iles

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. - Lin Yu Tang

Hope is passion for what is possible. - Soren Kierkegaard

Hope is patience with the lamp lit. - Tertullian

Hope is perhaps the most precious commodity we have. Hope has the power to splash living colours on a bleak landscape, to fill empty chests with golden treasures, and to infuse life and vitality where before there was only death and despair. - Dan and Jan Dravecky

Hope is sunshine which illuminate darkest path. - Charlie Chan 

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. - Henry Ward Beecher

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow. - Paul Laurence Dunbar

Hope is the nurse of misery. - American Proverb

Hope is the beacon which points to prosperity. - Edward Counsel

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. - William Hazlitt

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. - Samuel Smiles

Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see – in the mind's eye – a path to a better future. - Jerome Groopman

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. - Mgnon McLaughlin

Hope is the gay, skylarking pyjamas we wear over yesterday’s bruises. - Unknown

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. - Pliny

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. - G. K. Chesterton

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try. - Unknown

Hope is the spur of life. - Edward Counsel

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

Hope itself is like a star – not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. - Charles H. Spurgeon

Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope. - Rebecca Solnit

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. - John Wooden

Hope simply deals with possibilities. If something is still possible--even in our wildest dreams--if there is still a glimmer of hope, it is worth hanging on to for as long as it exists. - Peter G. Doumit

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. - Pope Alexander

Hope tempers fear so we can recognize dangers and then bypass or endure them. - Jerome Groopman

Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered. - Bentley Little

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. - Graham Greene

Hope! thou nurse of young desire. - Isaac Bickerstaff

Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray. - Oliver Goldsmith

Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope – it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness. - The Architect, The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. - Samuel Smiles

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. - Arthur Miller

If I can find hope anywhere, that's it, that's the best I can do. - Prior Walter

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. - Thomas Fuller

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. - Joseph Addison

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - St. Clement of Alexandra

In all things it is better to hope than to despair. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In hopelessness there is always hope. - Dan Simmons

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. - Friedrich Nietzsche

In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope. - Unknown

It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you. - William John Locke

It's not in us to give up hope, even when any reason for hope has dwindled to almost nothing. This communal spirit, this crazy insistence that we all really are connected and each other's care taker, it keeps us from sinking into despair or sliding into the abyss. - Pamela Moran

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. - Robert Schuller

Life’s short span forbids us to set out after far-reaching hopes. - Horace

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. - Jim Henson

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. - Ovid

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. - Epictetus

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Never lose hope. You never know what tomorrow may bring. - Unknown

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. - Abraham Cowley

Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope people are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work. - Charles Sawyer

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. - Christopher Reeve

One day of good fortune is better than ten of hope. - Edward Counsel 

Remember ... hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. - Andy Dufresne

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive. - Emil Cioran

Sometimes hope becomes scarce as midnight rainbow. - Charlie Chan

That which obstructs hope often increases it. - Edward Counsel

That's what we do, isn't it? Hang on to hope, in every hopelessly irrational way that we can. - Romo Lampkin

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. - Barack Obama

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself. - James Baldwin

The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency. - Patrick Shade

The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm. - George Gissing

The most absurd and the most rash hopes have sometimes been the cause of extraordinary success. - Luc de Clapiers

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. - Miguel de Cervantes

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found. - Ernest Hemingway

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveller than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. - Marian Zimmer Bradley 

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. - Edward Kennedy 

There is always hope … only because it's the one thing that no one has figured out how to kill yet. - Galen

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing, but we all do, and call it hope. - Edgar Watson Howe

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow. - Orison Swett Marden

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner. -  G. K. Chesterton

Those that hope little cannot grow much. - George MacDonald  

Those who live for hope alone find that the immediate future always slips from their grasp. - Seneca 

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor! - Edward Nulwer-Lytton

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. - Erich Fromm

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Walk on with hope in your heart, and you’ll never walk alone. - Shah Rukh Khan

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive. - David Mamet

We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope. - Manel Loureiro

We can have hope even while maintaining a negative – or sometimes simply realistic – attitude. For instance, if you're dying of cancer, you can still hope for pain relief. If you have a difficult-to-treat cancer, you can still hope for new treatments. - Lori Hope

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King

We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past. -  Kristin Armstrong

What doctor possesses such curative resources as those latent in a spark of happiness or a single ray of hope? - Henri-Frederic Amiel 

What heart has not false Hope misled? - William B. Tappan

What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there’s a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart. - Wayne W. Dyer

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. - Emil Brunner

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. - George Eliot

When the world says …Give up. Hope whispers … Try it one more time. - Unknown

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope. - Pittacus Lore

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. - John Lyly

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavour. - Eliza Cook 

While there is life there is hope. - Terence

Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle. - Paulo Freire

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Young is the person who has more hopes than memories. - Unknown

Tao Te Ching

The Tao Te Ching, Dao De Jing, whose authorship has been attributed to Laozi, is a Chinese classic text. Its name comes from the opening words of its two sections: 道 dào "way," Chapter 1, and 德 dé "virtue/power," Chapter 38, plus 經 jīng "classic." According to tradition, it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, "Old Master"), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China. The text's true authorship and date of composition or compilation are still debated, although the oldest excavated text dates back to the late 4th century BC

The text is fundamental to the Philosophical Taoism and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism. This ancient book is also central in Chinese religion, not only for Religious Taoism but Chinese Buddhism, which when first introduced into China was largely interpreted through the use of Daoist words and concepts. Many Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and even gardeners have used the Daodejing as a source of inspiration. Its influence has also spread widely outside East Asia, and is amongst the most translated works in world literature.

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From the Tao Te Ching

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. - Tao Te Ching

   

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. - Tao Te Ching

 

Without going out of the door one can know the whole world,

Without glancing through the window one can see the ways of Heaven,

The further one goes, the less one knows. - (Tao Te Ching)

A mind ever free of its own process Beholds the True miracle of Absolute Reality. A mind ever lost in its own process sees only the forms of this world. - (Tao Te Ching)

When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. - Tao Te Ching

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. - Tao Te Ching

Those who know when to stop do not find themselves in trouble. - Tao Te Ching

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. - Tao Te Ching

    

Quote Worthy

If you turn it over to the universe you will be surprise and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen. - Joe Vitale

Never say ‘it can’t get any worse than this’. Chances are it can, and it will get a lot worse become it gets better. - Vincent Thnay

To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says. - Slavenka Drakulic

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. - Thomas R. Dewar

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. - Arthur Schopenhauer

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. - Abraham Lincoln

A trap is only a trap if you don’t know about it. If you know about it, it’s a challenge. - China Mieville

Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. - Ellen Degeneres

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Fame - Quotes

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination. - Don Delillo

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. - Michel De Montaigne

Fame does not necessarily mean success. - Unknown

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. - Baruch Spinoza

Fame is a bright flower, but weeds abound mostly around it. - Edward Counsel

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. - Francis Bacon

Fame is nothing but an empty name.  - Charles Churchill

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. - Victor Hugo

Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy to those who woo her with too slavish knees. - John Keats

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame – to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell. - Edward Bulwer Lytton

I think that's the thing about fame or any notoriety. It's an illusion that you don't have to play by the rules anymore, the rules of life. - Tom Waits

If you want a share of the fame, you have got to be willing to take a share of the blame. - Unknown

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master’s fame. - Orison Swett Marden

Of present fame think little, and of future less. The praises that we receive after we are buried, like the posies that are strewn over our graves, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead; the dead are gone, either to a place where they hear them not, or where, if they do, they will despise them. - Charles Caleb Colton

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. - Lord Byron

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. - Joseph Addison