"What is hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth..." - Lord Byron

🌈 Hope

“What is hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”

— Lord Byron

Okay, Byron's being dramatic here — but sometimes naming your cynicism is the first step to finding real hope. The honest kind. The kind that survives even after the paint comes off.

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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.”

— Lord Byron

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods there is a rapture on the lonely shore there is society where none intrudes by the deep sea and music in its roar I love not man the less but nature more through time”

— Lord Byron

“He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?”

— Lord Byron

“The dew of compassion is a tear.”

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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods there is a rapture on the lonely shore”

— Lord Byron