Hope

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”
― Eric Hoffer

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”
― Wendell Berry

“Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, Bowen's Court & Seven Winters