Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. ― Jennifer Elisabeth

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You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to. ― Good Will Hunting

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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. ― John Lennon

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Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. ― Anne Carson

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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

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I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them. — Sir Edmund Hillary

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Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

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In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. ― Barack Obama

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Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in. ― Leigh Bardugo

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