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“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.”
― Jack Layton

“Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.”
― Jack Layton

“The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Armageddon in Retrospect

“Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan

“...but the pathos and the gift of life is that we cannot know which will be our defining heartbreak, or our most victorious joy.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“To see the stars, you must be able to first see the night.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar