Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.
There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so. . . their position is almost laughably hopeless.
Staying in a hopeless and miserable situation doesn't make you loyal, it just makes you miserable.
Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.
I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless - that all things are possible through prayer.
I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.
Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up. " It's quite the contrary. Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.
Things are only hopeless when you lose all hope.
I’m always going to be a hopeless romantic. Always.
As far as the Lord is concerned, the time to stand is in the darkest moment. It is when everything seems hopeless, when there appears no way out, when God alone can deliver.
I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.
Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.
I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.
Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?
All of the external circumstances and the rude and difficult people we meet, instead of getting angry, upset, or frustrated, we see that we can take them all and use them on the path in a way that actually invigorates and strengthens us, rather than defeats us. It's all very practical advice, and that's why I talk a lot about how to make our daily life into Dharma practice, otherwise it's easy to feel hopeless and helpless.
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.