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“Who knows what the day after tomorrow will bring—the very thing we most wanted and haven’t allowed our hearts to hope.”

William Maxwell

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source: letter to Eudora Welty, January 24, 1967, in What There Is to Say We Have Said, ed. by Suzanne Marrs (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2011), 213.

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category: faith, future, heart, hope, optimism

medium: Letter

“Be of good hope. Try to think in terms of ‘the long run’ and store up your honey like the bees.”

May Sarton

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source: July 18, 1954 letter to Madeleine L’Engle, in May Sarton: Selected Letters 1916–1954, ed. by Susan Sherman (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997), 349.

category: faith, future, hope

medium: Letter

“A good librarian is not so different from a prospector, her whole brain a divining rod. She walks to books and stands and wonders: here? Is the answer here? The same blind faith in finding, even when hopeless. If someone caught me when I was in the throes of tracking something elusive, I would have told them: but it’s out there. I can feel it.”

Elizabeth McCracken

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source: The Giant’s House (New York: Dial Press [trade paperback], 2007), 51.

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category: faith, librarian, library, research

medium: Fiction

“Without faith, talent is a fugitive thing.”

Alexandra Styron

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source: Reading My Father (New York: Scribner, 2011), 81.

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category: faith, school of life, talent

medium: Memoir

“A sparrow in a snowstorm with a feather in his bill: that is Faith.”

Ralph Hodgson

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source: “Flying Scrolls,” in The Skylark: and Other Poems (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1959), 74.

category: bird, faith, snowstorm, sparrow

medium: Poetry

“Nothing restores my faith in humanity like a successful Craigslist exchange.”

Jonah Lehrer

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source: Twitter, 1:11 PM, Feb 25, 2010 via Twitterrific

category: Craigslist, faith, honesty, humanity

medium: social media

“A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.”