Shaggy Quotes

No matter what happens or how difficult things become, you will eventually feel better.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.

Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

You can't get to no better days Unless you make it through the night

In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they're gonna get better, that there's a higher lesson to what I'm going through. It can be hard sometimes, and to turn it around like that, that's true faith.

The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.