G.k. ChestertonHope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. Hope is what drives us. Hope is what keeps us going when it seems that all hope has been lost. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that are desperate.
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