“Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't – surrender to events with hope.”
"Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less."
- Alain de Botton
Balance
"A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to."
- Alain de Botton
Balance
"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."
- Alain de Botton
Balance
"If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun."
- Alain de Botton
Self-awareness
"The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness."
- Alain de Botton
Self-awareness
"Happiness is possible even in the midst of darkness."
- Beauty and the Beast
Hope
"No one is beyond redemption."
- Beauty and the Beast
Hope
"You will … hear us declare with Moroni that hope is essential if we are to ‘receive [the] inheritance [God] hast prepared [for us]’ [Ether 12:32]. We want you to claim that inheritance as sons and daughters of a king. To do that, we must realize that hope is not just the message and manner of the naturally optimistic; it is the privilege of everyone who believes."
- Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
Hope
"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."
- Cormac McCarthy
Hope
"Light tomorrow with today."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hope