And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.Haruki Murakami
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Oh shut up. Every time it rains, it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but still you choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad. So you might as well smile while you’re here. I Wrote This For You
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The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it.Brene Brown
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If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say
“But I lived through it. And it made me who I am today.Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.Anne Lamott
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It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it—always.Mahatma Gandhi
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Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.
Yehuda Amichai
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You know the phrase: hope is not a plan. But hope is, in our line of work, a necessary ingredient and sometimes the ‘secret sauce’.Paul Farmer
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The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver
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