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