When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’

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"Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now."

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"I have tried to encourage children to love and care for themselves and to love the parents who care for them. That’s the way true neighborliness grows — loving others as we first loved ourselves."

- Fred Rogers

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"Love is not merely a feeling but an enacted emotion. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now, and to go on caring through joyful times and through times that may bring us pain."

- Fred Rogers

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- Fred Rogers

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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

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"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

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"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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