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Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging f...more

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Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the onl...more

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When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where ...more

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Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

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Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to ...more

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Hope lies in action

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Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in he...more

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I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.

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Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

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Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

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Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting

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You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

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Three more words. Be happy. Persevere.

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Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you can bear to give it," he instructed before I began ...more

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For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that w...more