Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

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The defining moment is not losing a war, but hope ― Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in. ― Leigh Bardugo

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A leader is a dealer in hope. -Napoleon Bonaparte

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Then I began, as though I had never seen my shoes before, to study their expression, their mimelike movements when I moved my toes, their shape, and the worn-out leather they had; and I discovered that their wrinkles and their white seams gave them an expression, provided them with a face. Something of my own being had gone over into these shoes, they struck me as being a ghost of my "I," a breathing part of myself. . . . ― Knut Hamsun

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Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.

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Hope is a slow business.

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

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If you'll quit moaning and crying, I'll use the things to make you into someone I can use in the lives of others to show them that no matter where they've been, no matter how deep the hole, no matter how painful the trial, there's hope. There is victory.

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