Hope

Jim Carrey on Affirmations

I've always believed in magic. When I wasn't doing anything in this town, I'd go up every night, sit on Mulholland Drive, look out at the city, stretch my arms out and say, "Everybody wants to work with me. I'm a really good actor. I have all kinds of great movie offers." I'd just repeat these things over and over, literally convincing myself that I had a couple movies lined up. I'd drive down that hill, ready to take the world on, going, "Movie offers are out there for me, I just don't hear them yet." It was like total affirmations, antidotes to the stuff that stems from my family background.

— Jim Carrey

When Skies Fall

"If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks."

— Francis Rabelais

Voltaire on Hope

"I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope."

— Voltaire

Aristotle on Hope

"Hope is a waking dream."

— Aristotle

Aeschylus on Dreams of Hope

"I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope."

— Aeschylus

To Risk Nothing

"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk
failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing"

— Author Unknown

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