Hope
Why can't I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is most becoming?
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Quotes About Hope
Let these hopeful quotes about the transformative power of optimism serve as a light in the dark and a reminder of the possibility of brighter days ahead.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Lawyer and former associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1933-2020)
Langston Hughes
Jazz poet and social activist (1901-1967)
Isak Dinesen
Danish author (1885-1962)
Guy Gavriel Kay
Canadian fantasy author (1954-present)
Helen Fagin
Havelock Ellis
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Abigail Adams
Former U.S. first lady (1744-1818)
Abraham Verghese
Ethiopian American author and physician (1955-present)
Agnes Martin
Abstract painter (1912-2004)
Ai Weiwei
Chinese artist and activist (1957-present)
Albert Camus
French philosopher and author (1913-1960)
Alexander Pope
Enlightenment-era poet and translator (1688-1744)
Alice Cooper
Alice Neel
Alice Walker
Novelist, poet, and social activist (1944-present)
Alva Myrdal
Swedish Nobel Prize-winning sociologist and diplomat (1902-1986)
Amanda Gorman
Poet, activist, and model (1998-present)
Anaïs Nin
French American diarist and author (1903-1977)
Ann Patchett
Author (1963-present)
Anselm Kiefer
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900-1944)
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Carl Sandburg
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer (1878-1967)
Carrie Mae Weems
Photographer (1953-present)
Celeste Ng
Cesar Chavez
Labor leader and civil rights activist (1927-1993)
Charles Dickens
English novelist (1812-1870)
Charles Kettering
Charlie Chaplin
Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker (1889-1977)
Charlotte Brontë
Author and poet (1816-1855)
Cheryl Strayed
Author (1968-present)
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Colson Whitehead
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (1969-present)
Confucius
Chinese philosopher and teacher (c. 551-479 BCE)
Cynthia Ozick
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author (1896-1940)
Florence Nightingale
Founder of modern nursing (1820-1910)
Franz Kafka
Writer (1883-1924)
Fred Rogers
Television host (1928-2003)
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist and orator (1818-1895)
Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter and self-portraitist (1907-1954)
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher and cultural critic (1844–1900)
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J.R.R. Tolkien
English writer and scholar (1892-1973)
Jack Kornfield
Buddhist teacher (1945-present)
Jawaharlal Nehru
Former prime minister of India (1889-1964)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
Jodi Picoult
Author (1966-present)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German polymath (1749-1832)
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. president (1917-1963)
John Steinbeck
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (1902-1968)
Joseph Addison
Joseph Campbell
Author and professor (1904-1987)
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Madame de Staël
Madeleine L'Engle
Author (1918-2007)
Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani activist and Nobel Prize winner (1997-present)
Malcolm X
Muslim minister and human rights activist (1925-1965)
Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor (121-180 CE)
Marilynne Robinson
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (1943-present)
Mark Twain
Writer, humorist, and essayist (1835-1910)
Marsha P. Johnson
LGBTQ+ activist (1945-1992)
Mary Tyler Moore
Actress and producer (1936-2017)
Mignon McLaughlin
Journalist and author (1913-1983)
Miles Davis
Jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1926-1991)
Méret Oppenheim
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and novelist (1875-1926)
Ralph Ellison
Ray Bradbury
Author (1920-2012)
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Robert Browning
Robert Frost
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (1874-1963)
Romain Rolland
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Lawyer and former associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1933-2020)
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Salvador Dalí
Spanish surrealist artist (1904-1989)
Seneca
Ancient Roman philosopher (c. 4 BCE-65 CE)
Sharon Salzberg
Author and meditation pioneer (1952-present)
Sigmund Freud
Stanley Kubrick
Filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter (1928-1999)
Stephen Hawking
English theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1942-2018)
Stephen King
Author of horror novels (1947-present)
Sue Stuart-Smith
Susan Sontag
Writer and cultural critic (1933-2004)
Sylvia Plath
Poet and novelist (1932-1963)
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