“If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.”
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Hopeful Quotes — page 246 of 783
“Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again.”
“Try something different. Surrender.”
“If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.”
“Bad nights lead to better days”
“You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations.”
“Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.”
“The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.”
“I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.”
“You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.”
“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
“It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself, she would achieve that peace which she imagined went only in surety of one’s self - that she would be able, through the medium of the dance, to command her emotions, to summon love or pity or happiness at will, having provided a channel through which they might flow. She drove herself mercilessly, and the summer dragged on.”
“No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.”
“We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.”
“Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.”
“My grandma always said bad things don't last forever.”
“I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.”
“If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.”
“We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.”
“And when I think about that sunrise that I woke up to that morning, I just feel like I got as close to nowhere as I could get, and found out that it was more of a place than anywhere I've been in a long time.”