“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
"I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me."
- Langston Hughes
Awareness
""The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life ... The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds—how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives—and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!""
- Langston Hughes
Inspiration
"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
- Langston Hughes
Adversity
"Cheap little rhymes, a cheap little tune, are sometimes as dangerous as a sliver of the moon."
- Langston Hughes
Creativity
"So since i’m still here livin’, i guess I will live on. I could’ve died for love–but for livin’ I was born."
- Langston Hughes
Resilience
"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