"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
— Louisa May Alcott
"Human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution."
— Steven Pinker
"You will be fine. No storm lasts forever, and the sun never forgets to rise."
— Debasish Mridha
"Resilience, in a sense, is applied optimism."
— Kate O'Neill
"Hope is informed optimism."
— Michael J. Fox
"Subjectivity is truth."
— Søren Kierkegaard
"When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life."
— Roy T. Bennett
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
— Charles Dickens
"Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is ..."
— Rodolfo Costa
"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."
— Voltaire (reflective theme)
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
— Plutarch
"If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it."
"Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were will..."
— Candace Bushnell
"May you live all the days of your life."
— Jonathan Swift
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
— Nelson Mandela
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J. K. Rowling
"Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter."
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
— Marthe Troly-Curtin
"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
— Carl Sandburg