Rick Yancey Quotes

It's really important to always have a positive mind-set, no matter what people have been through.

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

I can't get caught up in darkness. I just don't. I always want to gravitate towards light. I love picking yourself up or surviving or being grateful for the good stuff and not getting lost in the tough stuff. The discipline is so natural for me.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.

I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.

If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change.

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate. This is our true freedom. Whatever life may throw at us, we have the freedom and ability to choose our attitude. And I believe it is in those moments of choice that we manifest our destiny.

When the outlook isn't good, try the uplook - it's always good!

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

To hope is to see with the eye of the heart. To hope is to make the heart captain the vital and the body. To hope is to send darkness-night into exile.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There's darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you work your way towards it, and you do what it takes to get there.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.