Regardless of what party you support, this week has been rough. We are seeing a lot more hate, instead of love. I think in a way, we all need a break. We need a break from one another, a break from politics, and a break from the hate that is going on around us. I was set on writing an article about politics this week, and voicing my concerns about this election. However, I am emotionally and mentally exhausted. If anything, I just want to write about something happy, in order to make others happy. I hate seeing people sad, scared, and angry. I do not care who you are, I still care about the feelings of others, and I think everyone could use a little happiness right now. So I have decided to compile some quotes that inspire happiness, love, and hope.

1. Nelson Mandela

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

2. John Lennon

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”

3. Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”

4. Audrey Hepburn

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

6. Mahatma Gandhi

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”

7. Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

8. Eleanor Roosevelt

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

9. William Faulkner

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

10. Maya Angelou, Still I Rise

"You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise."

11. F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”

12. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

13. Walt Disney Company, Mulan

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”

14. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

15. C.S. Lewis

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

16. Oscar Wilde

“If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”

17. Ben Okri

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

18. Anne Frank

“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

19. Brenda Ueland

“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”

20. Plato

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”