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The Shawshank Redemption

1994

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.

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Words that Change Lives: David Wolpe at TEDxEmory

Words that Change Lives: David Wolpe at TEDxEmory

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David J. Wolpe
2013
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The Comfort Book

The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library, for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of a little encouragement.

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Matt Haig
2025
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Hope in Evolutionary Time

A very good friend of mine periodically asks me: Why do you believe that we are evolving in a positive way? Why do you believe that our consciousness is developing toward greater complexity, inclusivity and unity?

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Nancy Sylvester
2020
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Mitch Albom

I think faith is much more of an everyday thing...Hope is faith, to me. They’re intertwined. You have to believe things can get better, and you have to believe there is a bigger force at work.

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Relevant Editors
2010
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A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis

What is it about humans that causes us to defy genetic programming and so often live in hope, despite all that’s terrible about existence? Diane Ackerman shares what she has learned about human survival from working at a crisis hotline.

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Diane Ackerman
1998
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The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter’s Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete

On the morning of December 22, 2005, Matt Long was cycling to work in the early morning when he was struck by and sucked under a 20-ton bus making an illegal turn. The injuries he sustained pushed him within inches of his life.

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Matt Long, Charles Butler
2011
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Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story―up to a certain point. “When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground,” he said, “and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened.

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Jonathan Lear
2008
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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come.

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Rebecca Solnit
2016
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Why Are You Afraid? Have You No Faith?

The COVID-19 pandemic has left an indelible mark on our lives, and the same is true for the Church. Masses were suspended for months, people could not receive the sacraments, and during that time Pope Francis celebrated Mass alone every day.

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Pope Francis
2021
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