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There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#optimism #hope

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#hopelessness #magic #hope

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#man #trouble #happy

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. ↗

— Mark Twain

#happy

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#forgetting #happiness #memory #happy

Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#names #happy

What the hell?" I asked. Is this daring escape being sponsored by Honda? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#sacrifice

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#words

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. ↗

— Wisława Szymborska

#silence #words

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#words