A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out.

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"Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own."

- Barbara Kingsolver

Compassion

"Because nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness."

- Barbara Kingsolver

Compassion

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

- Barbara Kingsolver

Hope

"Hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

- Barbara Kingsolver

Hope

"Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning."

- Barbara Kingsolver

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"Happiness is possible even in the midst of darkness."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"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

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"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

Hope

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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