We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

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"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

- Leo Tolstoy

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"All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love."

- Leo Tolstoy

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"We are asleep until we fall in love!"

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"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."

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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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