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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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

author, political activist

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Nancy from California JUNE 2, 2018
I love this!!!

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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit. —Fran Lebowitz
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. —George Washington Carver
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Never mistake activity for achievement. —John R. Wooden
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Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit. —Edward Abbey
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home. —Christian D. Larson
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. —Bill Bradley
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