Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

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"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

- Gustave Flaubert

Awareness

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

- Gustave Flaubert

Balance

"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."

- Gustave Flaubert

Self-awareness

"A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies"

- Gustave Flaubert

Adversity

"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."

- Gustave Flaubert

Creativity

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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