Sydney Lee quotes

What is hope but futility for moments stood on end.
-- Sydney Lee

#Hope #Expectations #Moments

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Where there is no hope, we must invent it.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated

In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.