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"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."	Epictetus
"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."	Epictetus
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring which you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for."	Epicurus
"Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended."	Oriana Fallaci
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."	F(rancis) Scott
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."	Henry Ford
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."	Edward Morgan Forster
"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites."	Sigmund Freud
"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."	Erich Fromm
"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love."	Erich Fromm
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."	Erich Fromm
"I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope."	Sextus Julius Frontinus
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death."	Robert
"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."	Dr. Thomas Fuller
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits."	John Gay
"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes."	Kahlil Gibran
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