“Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.”
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Hopeful Quotes — page 81 of 783
“No matter what it is, if you really want it, and if you get out of the way of it, it will happen. It must be. It is Law. It can be no other way. It's the way this Universe is established. If you want it and you relax, it will happen.”
“Do the things you believe in, in the name of love. And know that, you aren't alone. We all have doubts and fears.”
“When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?”
“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”
“Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.”
“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”
“Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.”
“But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.”
“The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.”
“To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.”
“When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.”
“This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it, and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous. To hold yourself in this attitude of mind is to set into operation subtle, silent, and irresistible forces that sooner or later will actualize in material form that which is today merely an idea. But ideas have occult power, and ideas, when rightly planted and rightly tended, are the seeds that actualize material conditions.”
“My life doesn't change. I still have to go out and work hard every day, and do the best that I can do. I'm a third generation Californian, and there's a lot of talented, good-looking guys in California, so I'm just happy to be working, and lucky to be working.”
“Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me”
“The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence”
“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
“Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”