Free Paul Tsongas - America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

S. McNutt - Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with the path of deep healing. Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself but with patience, with compassion, and respe

Maya Angelou - My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Lady Bird Johnson - Where flowers bloom, so does hope.

Dalai Lama - If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Ellen DeGeneres - I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

Thomas Hardy - The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Pliny the Elder - Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Iyanla Vanzant - I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

Becky Hammon - Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

David Brainerd - If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

Barack Obama - In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope

Bill Clinton - There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

Gwen Carr - We are going to get out here, I am going to get out here and get something done. We have to wake up America. We have to make America uncomfortable like we’ve been uncomfortable for 400 yea

Richard Wright - What we want, what we represent, what we endure is what America is. If we black folk perish, America will perish.

Martin Luther King Jr. - The goal of America is freedom. Abused and scorned though we may be, our destiny is tied up with America’s destiny.

William J. Clinton - “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”

Jill Biden - Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

Richard Gere - What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.