Hope is The species of happiness

By Nabil Medawar | Published: August 20, 2008

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  • Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life. ~ Sanskrit Poem
  • For yesterday is but a memory and tomorrow is only a vision; but today well lived makes every yesterday a memory of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. ~ Sanskrit Poem
  • Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. ~ Samuel Johnson
  • Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy. ~ Italian Proverb
  • Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. ~ Bertrand Russell

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  • Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. ~ John Ruskin
  • There’s a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again! ~ Robert Gilfillan
  • Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~ Joseph Addison
  • To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.~ Frederick E. Crane
  • We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.~ Samuel Johnson
  • Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. ~ Indian Proverb

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