I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.

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"The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love

"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Adversity

"I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear"

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Resilience

""April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.""

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Change

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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