“That I may reach that happy time The kindly gods I pray, For are not ducks and pease in prime Upon the last of May?”
"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Love
"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Love
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Love
"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Compassion
"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Self-awareness
"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