hope
Be of good hope. Try to think in terms of “the long run” and store up your honey like the bees.
July 18, 1954 letter to Madeleine L’Engle, in May Sarton: Selected Letters 1916–1954, ed. by Susan Sherman (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997), 349.
And they saw hope pass by in a train.
Description of mourners lined up along the railroad tracks, as the train carrying RFK traveled from New York City to Washington, in “April 23, 1969: R.F.K. Assassin Sirhan Sirhan Sentenced to Death,” April 23, 2012.
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve / And Hope without an object cannot live.
“Work without Hope,” in The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London: Henry Frowde, 1912), 447 (poem composed February 21, 1825).
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873), 173.
It isn’t the sorrow of last winter that stabs, it is those moments of hope—remembering those moments of hope is unbearable.
I planned to have him sleep in my bed the first night he came back.
It is not hard looking back at sorrow but at happiness.
Locked Rooms and Open Doors: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1933–1935 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974), 14.
I fail and I go on. Failure is a beginning, failure is the springboard of hope.
The Work of Craft (London: Arcana, 1986), 15.