In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Let your love of life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
Faith, Hope, Love, and Insight: these are the four great healing powers.
Be of good cheer about death, and know of this truth: that no evil can happen to a good man, whether in life or after death.
We shall be better and braver and less helpless if we believe that one must search for what one does not know, than if we believe it impossible to find.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light of virtue.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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