If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. – Thomas Fuller
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. – Han Suyin
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. – Michael Jackson
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it. – Amelia Barr
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. – Albert Camus
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. – Ben Okri
Give light and people will find the way. – Ella Baker
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. – Henry Ward Beecher
And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see. – Donald Cargill
The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. – Mark Hopkins
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. – Wallis Simpson
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself. – James Allen
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. – Blaise Pascal
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. – Audre Lorde
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. – Emile Zola
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help. – Pope Paul VI