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Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep tryingGermany Kent
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Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.Germany Kent
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We cannot hunt for love. We can only surrender and become love’s prey.Kamand Kojouri
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I see your painas clearly as I feel my own. I will share your burden so you feel it less. Do not hate this world. Do not hate these people. I will share my hopeso you feel it more. I want you to see our loveas clearly as I feel yours.Kamand Kojouri
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Imagination belongs to hope. It’s the creative dance of possibility.Sharon Weil
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Hope is a helium balloon. It is a wish lantern set out into the dark sky of night.Sharon Weil
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If I’m going to have hope, I’m going to have to learn to endure disappointment.Sharon Weil
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A wish is a single unit of hope. It’s a single request for something I dearly desire.Sharon Weil
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Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience.Sharon Weil
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Without hope, I wouldn’t even try. Hope lifts me to consider new possibilities so I can stay the course of my desire, no matter what.Sharon Weil
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Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.Amit Kalantri
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You must have hope in a better future and have faith in this hope. But then you must forget your hope and focus on this moment now.Kamand Kojouri
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Hope is a form of conscious dream makingKilroy J. Oldster
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It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.Kamand Kojouri
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I don’t know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist. Why do we need more evidence? They exist here on this very Earth.Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani’sdulcet words all around you. And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children’s cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice, their families, and their limbs. Yes, hell certainly does existright now, at this moment, as I pen this poem. And all we’re doingto extinguish this hellfireis sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing. Tell me: what exactly does that makeus? Are we any better than the gatekeepers of hell? .Kamand Kojouri
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O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes. If that is your state then what of our cries? What can I tell you of goodness that you don’t already know? What can I tell you of faith, of hope and lovethat you yourselves bestow? O, angels, don’t pluck another feather, this isn’t the sky, it’s just the weather. Please, angels, try. We are one all together. Look up and listen, I’ll say it once and then put down my pen: We are sorry for our ignoranceand even though we are worldly, it might happen again. We are sorry for your wearinessand even though you aren’t worldly, we are no more than human.Kamand Kojouri
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Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It’s time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love.Kamand Kojouri
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Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth.Martina Boone
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May we always see life through love-coloured glasses.Kamand Kojouri
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Hope is oxygen to the soul, and God is the oxygen of hope.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Love is our religion. Love is our light. It is the only thing that gives us any hope.Kamand Kojouri
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Hope is what keeps us hanging on when we feel our rope wearing out. A positive attitude is often the natural result of maintaining that hope.Lindsey Rietzsch
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It's vital to our survival to be positive.Lindsey Rietzsch
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Without hope we fail to exist.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Love can bless you with a sense of purpose and direction when all else fails. Because to have faith in love is to be optimistic about life. Love is hopefulness.Kamand Kojouri
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When life gets hectic and you feel overwhelmed, take a moment to focus on the people and things you are most grateful for. When you have an attitude of gratitude, frustrating troubles will fall by the wayside.Dana Arcuri
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A great battle is a terrible thing, " the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.George R.r. Martin
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Just when the butterfly thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.Anonymous
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Hope is a belief in a better tomorrow.,Lailah Gifty Akita
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The gift of life, gives you the greatest opportunity to live and chance to rise above any situation. With hopeful attitude you can overcome any struggle.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Hope is the grace of endurance in the stormy days.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Life is must be filled with endless hope.Lailah Gifty Akita
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God will fight your battles if you just keep still. He is able to carry you through. Trust Him. Keep standing, keep believing and keep hoping.Germany Kent
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Hopefully and devoutly focus on your greater possibilities.Bryant McGill
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Life can be awful. Life can be ugly. And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.Richelle E. Goodrich
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.Aberjhani
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Do you feel that? It is a calm shift in the wind. Do you hear that? It is a soft whisper of hope. Do you see that? It is the divine hand of guidance, mercifully extended to aid our good fight.Richelle E. Goodrich
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Hope is imagination of reality. Hope is keeping your dreams alive.Lailah GiftyAkita
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When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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To hope is a long run but hopelessness is wrongdoing to your soul.Chinonye J. Chidolue
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Hope is confidence.Lailah Gifty Akita