The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others‘ company.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I don’t digest things with my mind.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

Hope is a waking dream.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

People want to feel hopeful.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?