James Taylor Quotes

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

There's no night without stars.

Tomorrow comes after the dark

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

Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

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.

When things are difficult, smile by faith. Don't wait until you feel better.

In your darkest times there's always room for a little light.

The best we can do is lean towards the light.

There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.

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.

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.

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.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Darkness does not truly have sway. I think that it's weak.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.

In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

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

If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.