Hurt

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Home of hope is hurt.

Walter Brueggeman

Time to give hope

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     There comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a 
     new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral
     ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give
     hope to each other. That time is now. 
     
      Wangari Maathai

Hope

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I pin my hope to quiet processes and small circles, in which vital and transforming events take place.

Rufus Jones

Hope

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Hope is delicate suffering.

Amiri Baraka, African American poet,
from "Language Is a Place of Struggle": Great Quotes by People of Color, edited by Tram Nguyen

Hope

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You get what you hope for, but what you hope for isn’t something you can always recognize.

Zadie Smith, In Conversation with Zadie Smith by Eleanor Wachtel

Hope

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The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.

Harvey Milk

Hope

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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Thomas Fuller

Hope

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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is to live inside that hope.

Barbara Kingsolver

Hope

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Hope is hope against the evidence. Hope arises in a break with the past. There is a kind of cut and the past is let go of. There is a difference between simple expectation and hope. … Expectation is based on the pattern you see in the past…. I think that hope is a kind of birth — it doesn’t come out of what went before, it comes out in spite of what went before.

Alphonso Lingis, Philosopher

To Hope

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To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.  ...  Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed.  Hope is for action; action is impossible without hope.

Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities