Calculations Quote by Gabriel Marcel

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

— H. L. Mencken

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the…

— Paul Rogat Loeb

Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the beginning of…

— Erik Erikson

Hope is not something you can just place in your back pocket or put your fingers around – it’s the belief in a world…

— Jon Foreman

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

— Benjamin Franklin

What enables me to believe in anything is hope.

— Ben Harper

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers…

— Kathleen Norris

Hope is not just one single quality or promise. Hope has to do with believing beyond today— knowing there’s a garden of beauty that…

— Joyce Rupp

“My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition--broken mirrors…

— Benjamin Wood

“Hope is a virtue independently of its realisations; it is an intrinsic value, an end in itself, allied to courage and imagination, a positive…

— A.C. Grayling

Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work,…

— Jeremy Collier