What is Love?

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;
It is not self-seeking, nor easily angered.
It keeps no record of wrongdoing.
It does not delight in evil,
But rejoices in the truth.
It always protects, trusts, hopes, and preserves.
There is nothing love cannot face;
There is no limit to its faith, hope, and endurance.
In a word, there are three things that last forever:
Faith, hope, and love;
But the greatest of them all is love.
--1 Corinthians 13:4-7

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Lose Yourself

“Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.”
--Henry Miller

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Triumph Over Evil

“Hope and love and care and friendship can triumph over evil however powerful it may seem.”
--Unknown

Overcome Limits

“Only in recognizing our limitations, can we hope to actually overcome them.”
--Laurie Santos

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More is Less

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
--Thomas Jefferson

Hope's Gift

“Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.”
--Jeffrey Fry

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Any Period

“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of revolution, when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leadership Floats

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Properly Armed

“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”
--Alexander Hamilton

Cold Dead Fate

“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Last Best Hope

“The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just. A way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.”
--Abraham Lincoln

Galaxy of Hope

“A single chance is a galaxy of hope.”
--Jedi Proverb

Infinite Hope

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Poor Way

“Man is in a poor way if people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward after death.”
--Albert Einstein

Best of Things

“Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
--Stephen King

Gift of Miracles

“Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within them the gift of miracles.”
--Samuel Smiles

Disease of Fear

“Fear is a disease; hope is its only cure.”
--Jedi Proverb

Hope and Despair

“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”
--Alain de Botton

Not Like Ordinary Men

“To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.”
--Yoshida Shoin

Hopelessness

“He who surrenders hope, surrenders life.”
--Jedi Proverb