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Hope or Despair
Choosing the road not taken is easy if you live near Vancouver, B.C.
Road signs for optimists and pessimists
“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.
We can hope while we cope. - Unknown
Hope is a force of nature. - Jim Butcher
A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Where flowers bloom, so does hope. - Lady Bird Johnson
Where there is life, there is hope. - Alyson Noel
All hope abandon, ye who enter here! - Dante Alighieri
Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs
He that lives on hope will die fasting. - Benjamin Franklin
I was never crippled until I lost hope. - Nick Vujicic
Life begins on the other side of despair. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Where there is no vision, there is no hope. - George Washington Carver
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. - Antonio Porchia
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. - Thomas Norton
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. - Baltasar Gracian
For hope is but the dream of those that wake. - Matthew Prior
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. - Christopher Reeve
Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one. - Talmud
Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Francis Bacon
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
There is not love of life without despair about life. - Albert Camus
Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. - William Hazlitt
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. - Martin Luther
Our hope is as certain as Jesus's grave is empty. - Sam Allberry
Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope. - Ogden Nash
I hope the guy who invented AutoCorrect burns in Hello! - Unknown
Beware how you take away hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The computer is down. I hope it's something serious. - Stanton Delaplane
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. - Albert Camus
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Abraham Lincoln
How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign? - George Carlin
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. - Henry Rollins
Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. - Robert Brault
I hope it will be hard for the Russians to jump across that creek. - Gustavus Adolphus
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. - Jim Henson
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. - Pearl S. Buck
God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world. - Billy Graham
My wife's an earth sign. I'm a water sign. Together we make mud. - Henny Youngman
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
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created spring. - Bernard Williams
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. - Daniel J. Boorstin
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. - Joseph Addison
Hope springs eternal in the human breast. Man never is, but always to be blest. - Alexander Pope
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. - Howard Thurman
Having hope will give you courage. You will be protected and will rest in safety. - Bible
To be satisfied with yourself is a sure sign that your forward motion has stopped. - Unknown
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - Holy Bible
Hope is only a beginning; it's not a substitute for action, only a basis for it. - Rebecca Solnit
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. - Blaise Pascal
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. - Elie Wiesel
Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not at hand. - Thomas Aquinas
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? - Albert Einstein
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 you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. - Mother Teresa
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
Every time a child is born it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed in man. - Rabindranath Tagore
Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings. - Edward S Ame
It's difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope for tomorrow. - Robert H. Goddard
If the sign on your heart says, "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere. - Susan Jeffers
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. - Henry Ward Beecher
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? - Rose Kennedy
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. - Calvin Coolidge
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. - Franklin D Roosevelt
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. - Martin Luther King Jr.
When people come alongside us during difficult times to give us renewed courage, a renewed spirit, renewed hope - that's encouragement. - David Jeremiah
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. - Maya Angelou
Hope is a force of nature. - Jim Butcher
A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Where flowers bloom, so does hope. - Lady Bird Johnson
Where there is life, there is hope. - Alyson Noel
All hope abandon, ye who enter here! - Dante Alighieri
Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs
He that lives on hope will die fasting. - Benjamin Franklin
I was never crippled until I lost hope. - Nick Vujicic
Life begins on the other side of despair. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Where there is no vision, there is no hope. - George Washington Carver
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. - Antonio Porchia
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. - Thomas Norton
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. - Baltasar Gracian
For hope is but the dream of those that wake. - Matthew Prior
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. - Christopher Reeve
Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one. - Talmud
Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Francis Bacon
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
There is not love of life without despair about life. - Albert Camus
Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. - William Hazlitt
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. - Martin Luther
Our hope is as certain as Jesus's grave is empty. - Sam Allberry
Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope. - Ogden Nash
I hope the guy who invented AutoCorrect burns in Hello! - Unknown
Beware how you take away hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The computer is down. I hope it's something serious. - Stanton Delaplane
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. - Albert Camus
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Abraham Lincoln
How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign? - George Carlin
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. - Henry Rollins
Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. - Robert Brault
I hope it will be hard for the Russians to jump across that creek. - Gustavus Adolphus
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. - Jim Henson
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. - Pearl S. Buck
God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world. - Billy Graham
My wife's an earth sign. I'm a water sign. Together we make mud. - Henny Youngman
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
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created spring. - Bernard Williams
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. - Daniel J. Boorstin
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. - Joseph Addison
Hope springs eternal in the human breast. Man never is, but always to be blest. - Alexander Pope
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. - Howard Thurman
Having hope will give you courage. You will be protected and will rest in safety. - Bible
To be satisfied with yourself is a sure sign that your forward motion has stopped. - Unknown
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - Holy Bible
Hope is only a beginning; it's not a substitute for action, only a basis for it. - Rebecca Solnit
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. - Blaise Pascal
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. - Elie Wiesel
Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not at hand. - Thomas Aquinas
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? - Albert Einstein
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 you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. - Mother Teresa
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
Every time a child is born it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed in man. - Rabindranath Tagore
Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings. - Edward S Ame
It's difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope for tomorrow. - Robert H. Goddard
If the sign on your heart says, "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere. - Susan Jeffers
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. - Henry Ward Beecher
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? - Rose Kennedy
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. - Calvin Coolidge
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. - Franklin D Roosevelt
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. - Martin Luther King Jr.
When people come alongside us during difficult times to give us renewed courage, a renewed spirit, renewed hope - that's encouragement. - David Jeremiah
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. - Maya Angelou
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