Hope

“All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering,”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“All God asks of you is good will. From the top of the ladder He looks lovingly upon you, and soon, touched by your fruitless efforts, He will Himself come down, and, taking you in His Arms, will carry you to His Kingdom never again to leave Him. But should you cease to raise your foot, you will be left for long on the earth.”
― Thérèse de Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux