"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

Aristotle on goals
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"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on hope
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."

Kerr, Jean on hope
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"One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time."

Pound, Ezra on hope   

"Were it not for hope the heart would break."

Proverb, Scottish on hope
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"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

Rohn, Jim on hope
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma on despair
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on hope
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"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."

Fuller, Thomas on hope
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"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

Epictetus on hope
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"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."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"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."

Addison, Joseph on hope
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]"

Bible on peace
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"'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."

Buddha on peace
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"Love, and do what you like."

Augustine, St. on love
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