“Who knows what the day after tomorrow will bring—the very thing we most wanted and haven’t allowed our hearts to hope.”
William Maxwell
more infosource: letter to Eudora Welty, January 24, 1967, in What There Is to Say We Have Said, ed. by Suzanne Marrs (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2011), 213.
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category: faith, future, heart, hope, optimism
medium: Letter
“Be of good hope. Try to think in terms of ‘the long run’ and store up your honey like the bees.”
May Sarton
more infosource: 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.
medium: Letter
“And they saw hope pass by in a train.”
Paul Fusco
more infosource: 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. Stunning slideshow of photographs here. (Thanks, DW!)
category: death, funeral, hope, photography, politics, Robert F. Kennedy, train
medium: Newspaper article
“I love baseball. I live for the spring. It gets me through half of the year, and then I have to figure out how to make it through the other half. There’s a real poetry to baseball. It’s like life, because for a long period of time absolutely nothing happens. And then all of a sudden, ‘A triple play, unassisted!'”
Emmylou Harris
more infosource: “Emmylou Harris,” interviewed by Lucinda Williams, BOMB magazine, Issue 59, Spring 1997.
category: baseball, hope, sports, spring
medium: Interview
“Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve / And Hope without an object cannot live.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
more infosource: “Work without Hope,” in The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London: Henry Frowde, 1912), 447–poem composed February 21, 1825.
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medium: Poetry
via: Beverly Bader“What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
George Eliot
more infosource: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873), 173.
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medium: fiction
“Hope is not a budgeting strategy.”
Carl Richards
more infosource: “Hope is Not a Budgeting Strategy,” Bucks Blog, The New York Times, November 1, 2010.
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medium: blog
notes: see Behavior Gap, the blog run by Carl Richards, for more info
“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.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
more infosource: Locked Rooms and Open Doors: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1933–1935 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974), 14.
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category: death, grief, hope, kidnap, mourning, sorrow
medium: diary
notes: diary entry dated Thursday, February 16, 1933; Anne and Charles Lindbergh's son Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. was kidnapped on the evening of March 1, 1932 at the age of twenty months
“I fail and I go on. Failure is a beginning, failure is the springboard of hope.”
Carla Needleman
more infosource: The Work of Craft (London: Arcana, 1986), 15.
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category: failure, hope, springboard
medium: nonfiction
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