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Hope or Despair
Choosing the road not taken is easy if you live near Vancouver, B.C.
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“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (1874–1963)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Hope is a walking dream. - Aristotle
We can hope while we cope. - Unknown
Hope is a force of nature. - Jim Butcher
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Where there is life, there is hope. - Alyson Noel
Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart
An old man in a house is a good sign. - Benjamin Franklin
I hope they bury me near a strait man. - Groucho Marx
Life begins on the other side of despair. - Jean-Paul Sartre
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. - Benjamin Franklin
In the kingdom of hope, there is no winter. - Russian Proverb
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. - Antonio Porchia
The Pope, I hope, can only be scared by God. - Donald Trump
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. - Baltasar Gracian
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. - Christopher Reeve
Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one. - Talmud
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. - Edmund Burke
Love paid a price so hope could become a reality. - Susan Gaddis
The great hope of society is individual character. - William Ellery Channing
Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie. - Lou D. Phillips
Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. - William Hazlitt
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown
The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. - Terry Pratchett
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. - Alfred Adler
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. - Henry Rollins
Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion. - Thomas Fuller
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. - Ronnie Shakes
I hope it will be hard for the Russians to jump across that creek. - Gustavus Adolphus
If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. - William Makepeace Thackeray
Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust. - Charles R Swindoll
Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close
We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. - Desmond Tutu
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. - Robert G Ingersoll
It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it. - Suzanne Necker
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. - Howard Thurman
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. - Rita Mae Brown
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. - Epictetus
Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement. - Unknown
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? - Albert Einstein
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. - Robert Ingersoll
I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are so very mean. - Zach Galifianakis
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. - Lois McMaster Bujold
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? - Laurence J. Peter
Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney
I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White
The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes
It's difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope for tomorrow. - Robert H. Goddard
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar
If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me. - John Wooden
Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand - that and such hope as I bring. - JRR Tolkien
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. - Bertrand Russell
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. - Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier
Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen. - Deep Roy
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. - Oscar Wilde
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. - Orison Swett Marden
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. - Martin Luther King Jr.
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
When people come alongside us during difficult times to give us renewed courage, a renewed spirit, renewed hope - that's encouragement. - David Jeremiah
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. - Norman Cousins
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell
I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes. - Michael Grant
We can hope while we cope. - Unknown
Hope is a force of nature. - Jim Butcher
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Where there is life, there is hope. - Alyson Noel
Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart
An old man in a house is a good sign. - Benjamin Franklin
I hope they bury me near a strait man. - Groucho Marx
Life begins on the other side of despair. - Jean-Paul Sartre
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. - Benjamin Franklin
In the kingdom of hope, there is no winter. - Russian Proverb
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. - Antonio Porchia
The Pope, I hope, can only be scared by God. - Donald Trump
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. - Baltasar Gracian
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. - Christopher Reeve
Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one. - Talmud
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. - Edmund Burke
Love paid a price so hope could become a reality. - Susan Gaddis
The great hope of society is individual character. - William Ellery Channing
Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie. - Lou D. Phillips
Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. - William Hazlitt
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown
The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. - Terry Pratchett
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. - Alfred Adler
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. - Henry Rollins
Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion. - Thomas Fuller
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. - Ronnie Shakes
I hope it will be hard for the Russians to jump across that creek. - Gustavus Adolphus
If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. - William Makepeace Thackeray
Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust. - Charles R Swindoll
Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close
We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. - Desmond Tutu
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. - Robert G Ingersoll
It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it. - Suzanne Necker
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. - Howard Thurman
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. - Rita Mae Brown
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. - Epictetus
Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement. - Unknown
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? - Albert Einstein
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. - Robert Ingersoll
I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are so very mean. - Zach Galifianakis
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. - Lois McMaster Bujold
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? - Laurence J. Peter
Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney
I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White
The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes
It's difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope for tomorrow. - Robert H. Goddard
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar
If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me. - John Wooden
Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand - that and such hope as I bring. - JRR Tolkien
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. - Bertrand Russell
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. - Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier
Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen. - Deep Roy
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. - Oscar Wilde
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. - Orison Swett Marden
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. - Martin Luther King Jr.
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
When people come alongside us during difficult times to give us renewed courage, a renewed spirit, renewed hope - that's encouragement. - David Jeremiah
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. - Norman Cousins
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell
I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes. - Michael Grant
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