Carl Hoppe quotes

“I hope that my achievements in life shall be these-that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.”
-- Carl Hoppe

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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.”

“Life is just a chance to grow a soul.”

“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.”

“My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.”

“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”

“The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.”

“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”

“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”

Source : Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group