“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
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Hopeful Quotes — page 19 of 783
“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”
“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.”
“The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.”
“The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.”
“This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.”
“We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.”
“I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.”
“Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.”
“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
“Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.”
“Democracy is the road to socialism.”
“Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.”
“Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.”
“When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.”
“Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best”
“Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar of the world for the redemption of the human race, the most appropriate time to consecrate a portion from abounding riches and scant poverty to send forth the good tidings of great joy into all the earth?”
“Music can change the world.”
“Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.”
“Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.”