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Hope is the belief that what we do matters, even though how and when it may matter, who and what it may impact, are not things we can know beforehand.

—Rebecca Solnit

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Courage is like love. It must have hope for nourishment.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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Judge not each day by the harvest one reaps, rather by the seeds one plants.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

—Samuel Butler

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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

—Tertullian

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To live without hope is to cease to live.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

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You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one

—John Lennon

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Believe.

—Ted Lasso

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Don’t stop believin’

—Journey

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Poem: Still I Rise

Poem: Hope is the thing with feathers

Poem: Another Postponement of Destruction

Poem: Biography of LeBron as Ohio

Poems of hope & resilience

Song: Bron-Yr-Aur

Song: Sliding Down

Parable of the boy throwing starfish back into the sea

The trees that survived Hiroshima

The new science of hope

Good News Network

The Dodo

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