"We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord."

Hope, Endurance

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"We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord."

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"Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people " and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?"

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Lillian Hellman, American Dramatist

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"I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people."

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