We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

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"A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place."

- Amy Tan

Love

"We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming—well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate."

- Amy Tan

Hope

"Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever."

- Amy Tan

Hope

"When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it’s all part of making sense of who I am."

- Amy Tan

Self-awareness

"You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them."

- Amy Tan

Courage

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"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