Tag Archives: Hope

Great Overcoming Quotes

 

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner

Would you touch a nettle without being stung by it? take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances and hardly will any thing annoy you.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
Seneca

My strength is made perfect in weakness.
II Corinthians

Problems are the price you pay for progress.
Branch Rickey

When you’re feeling your worst, that’s when you get to know yourself the best.
Leslie Grossman

Supporting Quotes about Life

 

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
Erma Bombeck

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

While there’s life, there’s hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus

Your life is what your thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
Ursula Andress

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney

Quotes on Love

 

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a rosy dot over the ‘i’ of loving.
Cyrano de Bergerac

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis