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Friday, 4 October 2024

"Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness."

–– Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer

Source: Daily Philosopher Instagram, September 2, 2024.

via: Sketchbook N 14, 2024, p. 27.

"With a little seed of imagination, you can grow a field of hope."

–– African proverb

Source: Aspire Design and Home, Spring 2024, p. 45.

via: Aboveground Art Supplies Knapsack Sketchbook 2020, 2024, p. 41.

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."

–– Tom Bodett, (b. 1955), American author, voice actor, radio host, woodworker, and columnist

via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

–– Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist and poet

via 2020 Aboveground Art Supplies Knapsack Sketchbook, 2023 p. 24.

"Art is the highest form of hope."

–– Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) German visual artist

Source: Elle Decoration UK, March 2023, p. 57.

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."

–– Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist

via: Sketchbook 26, 2022, p. 129.

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is to live inside that hope."

–– Barbara Kingsolver (b. 1955), American novelist, essayist, and poet

via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 20

"... one cannot truly know hope unless he [or she] has found out how like despair hope is."

–– Thomas Merton (1915-1968), American Trappist monk, writer, scholar, and social activist

via Sketchbook 4, 2008, p. 143