I learned that things don’t always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I’ve learned that there are things that go wrong that don’t always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I’ve learned that some broken things stay broken, and I’ve learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.
- Jennifer Weiner

At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.
- Bruce Springsteen

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
-Roald Dahl

Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
- Marilyn Monroe

You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you might find
You get what you need. 

- Rolling Stones

I'm not just a whimsical figure who wears a charming suit and affects a jolly demeanor. You know, I'm a symbol. I'm a symbol of the human ability to be able to suppress the selfish and hateful tendencies that rule the major part of our lives. If you can't believe, if you can't accept anything on faith, then you're doomed for a life dominated by doubt.

- Miracle on 34th Street

It's not the circumstances you enounter. It is who you are. Will you manifest your truth? And this is the real challenge. I'm here to tell you now that life is not about the big fights, the big battle, your great destination. Life is about the small moments every single day - those acts of kindness and decency and love that will define you, that in their aggregate add up to a lifetime of profound contribution. This is life. It doesn't start next year. It doesn't start when you finish graduate school. It doesn't start when you get a job. Today is the day you have to tell your truth, to manifest your essence, to declare the state of your soul.
- Mayor Cory A. Booker

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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
- Saint Augustine

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the colour of our kids' eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of to live.

I learned to live many years ago. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and utterly. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned. By telling them this: Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the back yard with the sun on your face.

Learn to be happy.

- excerpt from a speech by Anna Quindlen

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news: The news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish!
- Anne Frank

Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
- Helen Keller

Belief in yourself and in the possibility of success is the most important requirement for living an extraordinary life. Believe in belief. Believe in yourself and the best of the world will come to you–and…you will be prepared to receive it. Don’t sell yourself short. You do not require permission to be extraordinary.
- Richard Quick

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
- John Mason

I believe in pink.
I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.
I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.
I believe that tomorrow is another day and
I believe in miracles.
- Audrey Hepburn

Once when Mount
Saint Helens erupted
hot rock seared life out of
every pulsing thing; gray ash and
dust entombed the char that a second before
had been plant and animal and person, sealing all in
graves the size of cities, the depths of seas. Scientists, who
are schooled in such matters, avowed that nothing would live in that
place for decades. They could not account, just five years later, for the single
lupine that appeared, each leaf stalk a perfect six-pointed star, green spears pointing in
every direction, the tangle of amethyst flowers, laughter bubbled up from the belly of earth.

-Sheri Lindner

We are born believing a man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson