"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven." ― Emily Dickinson Topic(s): Hope More From Emily Dickinson "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." "Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath." "Beauty is not caused. It is." More In Hope "To Live signifies to believe and hope – to lie and to lie to oneself."― Emile M. Cioran "In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival."― Stanislav Grof "I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."― George Washington