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Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

Dogen / Shobogenzo

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Tales of a Wayside Inn

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt / Speech

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt / First Inaugural Address

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll / Through the Looking-Glass

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

J. M. Barrie / Peter Pan

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

L. M. Montgomery / Anne of Green Gables

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potter / Letter (1938)

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott / Attributed

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

Henry David Thoreau / Walden

"Hope" is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings the tune without the words / And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson / Hope is the thing with feathers (c. 1861)

Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad.

Christina Rossetti / Remember (1849)

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night; / What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

William Blake / The Tyger, from Songs of Experience (1794)

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter.

John Keats / Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819)

The child is father of the man.

William Wordsworth / My Heart Leaps Up (1802)

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Seneca / Letters from a Stoic

tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet

L. M. Montgomery / Anne of Green Gables

Hope is the thing with feathers.

Emily Dickinson / The Poems of Emily Dickinson
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