"the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair"
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"It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done"
6
"Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst of defeat, a glimmer of hope in the maelstrom, and peace despite the wreckage."
3
"We have survived the death of our childhood. We are soldiers now, maybe the last soldiers who will ever fight, the Earth’s final and only hope, united as one in the spirit of vengeance."
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"I don't need you because I want to save you. I want to save you because I need you to save me."
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"Life becomes invaluable when we spend it in the service of others."
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"There is only one way to happiness and that is through service."
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"Happiness is the ultimate purpose of our life and you find it in service."
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"The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity."
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"Perseverance and gratefulness makes ​hope closer to the blessing."
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"Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope."
5
"Beauty is sometimes born of pain"
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"Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire"
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"Thick is the darkness-- Sunward, O, sunward!Rough is the highway-- Onward, still onward!Dawn harbors surely East of the shadows. Facing us somewhere Spread the sweet meadows. Upward and forward! Time will restore us:Light is above us, Rest is before us."
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"The universe would give you whatever you wanted if you twisted its arm hard enough."
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"The steeper the climb, the more incentive to reach the top. Even in the midst of the darkness, there is always a shard of light if we will but search for it hard enough and believe in it strongly enough. A name portrays the nature of its wearer. The meaning of a name, however, portrays the trueness of its wearer in depths that very few ever come to comprehend. May God bless you and keep you and give you peace in all that you do, and may we rest assured of this: that though we travel far apart and in many different directions and for long periods of time, we will meet again, if not in this lifetime, then in eternity, and there we will never have to say ‘good-bye’ again. Courage is not found in lacking fear, courage is found in not allowing your fear to rule you. Courage is really just facing fear. Do not put too much stock in the stars my boy, they are fickle and distant and do not affect the lives of men by very great a margin."
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"for the first time in an age, he saw the beauty of the stars, rather than the darkness between them."
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"And what is I was only supposed to burn for a certain amount of time" I whispered. "What if I was only meant to shine for a while"Then you truly don't know what stars are meant to do."I looked at him in wonder."They are meant to give us hope in the face of infinity"."
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"A confused labyrinth of smoky starsentangles my hopes,which are nearly faded"
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"If I'm confused, or upset, or angry, if I can go out and look at the stars I'll almost always get back a sense of proportion. It's not that they make me feel insignificant; it's the very opposite; they make me feel that everything matters, be it ever so small, and that there's meaning to life even when it seems most meaningless."
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