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Hope.......

Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear. - Monroe Forester

Hope is knowing that people, like kites, are made to be lifted up - Unknown

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow - Albert Einstein

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only one second without hope - Unknown

Hope never abandons you; you abandon it - George Weinberg

Dum spiro, spero; "While I breath, I hope" - Latin Proverb

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life - Emil Brunner

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world - Unknown

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope - Barbara Kingsolver

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality - Unknown

Hope is the dream of a soul awake - French Proverb

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark - George Iles

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