"Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future."

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"Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future."

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"I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don't know quite yet but I can't wait to, and that is the start of everything."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

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"It is currently said that hope goes with youth, and lends to youth its wings of a butterfly; but I fancy that hope is the last gift given to man, and the only gift not given to youth. Youth is pre-eminently the period in which a man can be lyric, fanatical, poetic; but youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged; God has kept that good wine until not. It is from the backs of the elderly gentlemen that the wings of the butterfly should burst."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home."

Stephen King, American Author

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"I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness."

Stephen King, American Author

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"The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will."

Stephen King, American Author

Hope, Power, Truth, Regret, Inspirational

"They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food."

Stephen King, American Author

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"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

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"Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future."

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