No Way

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The beauty of the Way is that there is no "Way." 

Loy Ching-Yuen, 

The Book of the Heart

Hope

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You get what you hope for, but what you hope for isn’t something you can always recognize.

Zadie Smith, In Conversation with Zadie Smith by Eleanor Wachtel

Hope

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The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.

Harvey Milk

Beauty

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Today like every other day we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Rumi, The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne