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- What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Hope is only the love of life.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- While there's life, there's hope.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Ad Atticum
- Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.
- Anne Lamott
- There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
- Corita Kent
- The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
- Edith Sodergran
- The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
- Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
- She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark
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