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"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."
Christopher Reeve

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
Dale Carnegie

"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 H. Erikson

"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

"The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope."
Samuel Johnson

"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible."
William Sloane Coffin

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Hope Definition: The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled.

Etymology of 'Hope'
Old English hopian "wish, expect, look forward (to something)," of unknown origin, a general North Sea Germanic word (cf. Old Frisian hopia, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Dutch hopen; Middle High German hoffen "to hope," borrowed from Low German). Some suggest a connection with hop (v.) on the notion of "leaping in expectation" [Klein].

Positive Suggestions:
"Awaken your natural Hope"
"Perfect Hope is within you"
"Allow yourself to feel Hopeful now"
"Accept Hope"
"Trust in your Hope"

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