Promise

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
― Alphonse de Lamartine

“To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
― Epictetus