Dreams

I met the girl of my dreams and she’s going to make me the happiest person in the world tomorrow

Perseverance

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt

Disguised evil

This, she realizes, is the basis of his fear, all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a billet to its mark.
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See