Victor Hugo on future
“The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.”
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Conscience is God present in man.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru You don’t have to be a poet, you don’t have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact with your words. We all have this capacity to find solutions for the future.
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Amanda GormanAmanda Gorman But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.
Amanda GormanAmanda Gorman Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow yourself to release all doubts about your ability, the mistakes of the past, the fear of the future.
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