“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from you life. It grows right up out of it.” – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.” – John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Look at the sea, girls – all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.” Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road
I am no bird; and not net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.” – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.” – Alison Croggon, The Naming
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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