Donald Hall Quotes

I am disappointed when I don't win, because I want to believe I can win on every horse I ride, which is a ridiculous thing to think. Even if I'm on a horse that I have woken up thinking has no chance, by the time I've reached the course, I'll have convinced myself that it can win and will be disappointed if it doesn't.

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

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.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.

We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair. It blooms just as beautifully in the icy landscape of winter as it does in the pleasant warmth of summer.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.

Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day.

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

You think you can do anything, and then you slowly learn how wrong you are.

No one will steal my joy.

I got a strong spirit that I rely on and go into. It allows me to prepare and drive forward.

Fight with a happy heart.

To stay positive, you have to be very strong mentally.

I have no ability or interest to play that weak, beaten person.

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

I think that physical confidence transcends to all facets of your life.

Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.

. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.

I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

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