“Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining.”
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Hopeful Quotes — page 129 of 783
“Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.”
“To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.”
“What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.”
“Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.”
“Misery motivates, not utopia.”
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
“The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.”
“When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing”
“At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.”
“Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .”
“But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!”
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
“Don't tell me about heaven. What about in this life, that there is a better way, that this is not in vain, that it is not Edward Albee or Camus's absurd, the theater of the absurd, it is not Shakespeare - "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" - that life has meaning and that God is still in control, and that God can, and God will, so people of goodwill, working hard, do something about the situation? We can change.”
“It's a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you'll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past?”
“The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.”
“Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.”
“My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.”
“As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”
“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”