Thomas Malthus Quotes

Action is the antidote to despair.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Without hope we are lost.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

My purpose is far greater than my pain.

My big inspiration for hope is the courage that I read about from people from all over the world, or that I see on a daily basis from the kids I get to work with.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

I have been blind. I have been paralyzed. But each day, if I wake up, then I know He's left me here for a reason, and I have to say yes. And I have to get up. And I have to make the best of that day.

I don't believe people are moved to action when they see horror. They're moved to action when they see courage in the face of horror.

Hope is everything. Once you've lost that, you don't really have much.

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.

It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

When the world is on your shoulder, got to straighten up your act and boogie down.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.