"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. | Hope | 22 bookmarks

"There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t."

Trogdon, William | Adventure | 9 bookmarks

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

Smiles, Samuel | Hope | 19 bookmarks

"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that."

Hazlitt, William | Hope | 11 bookmarks

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

Hazlitt, William | Friends and Friendship | 4 bookmarks

"There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures."

Penn, William | Friends and Friendship | 15 bookmarks

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

Aristotle | Action | 5 bookmarks

"People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all."

Unknown, Source | Change | 18 bookmarks

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard | Change | 83 bookmarks

"Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay."

Unknown, Source | Friends and Friendship | 17 bookmarks