Bahman Ghobadi Quotes

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

Never give up on anybody.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

Giving is most important to show the less fortunate that you don't give up. You always want to live a better life.

My dad, he believed in me. My first year was hard for me. I came to the States with myself, and no one came with me.

I've always said, 'Before you see the rainbow, it has to storm.'

My story is one of ups and downs. It's made up of tastes of success and a lot more rejection.

I'm someone who's always looking for hope - if there's a ray of hope, a shrapnel, shred, a flake of hope - because I take the misfortune or hard times of others very seriously.

There is no time you should shut the doors, as there is always love out there for you.

I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.

People like us we gotta stick together Keep your head up nothing lasts forever.

In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.

It's you, so I feel that a person who will understand you, a person who will find you is waiting out there. So just keep on trying your best.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.

People relate to life being challenging and hard, and still trying to keep a positive attitude and keep going. If you're alone, there's nothing wrong with that. That's fine. But, finding the right person is something that you would really like and hope for.

Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk - lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say O.K. Why do I feel so sorry for everyone and so proud?

That's right," said Luna encouragingly, as if they were back in the Room of Requirement and this was simply spell practice for the D.A. "That's right, Harry... come on, think of something happy..." "Something happy?" he said, his voice cracked. "We're all still here," she whispered, "We're still fighting. Come on, now.

Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.

I do not believe this darkness will endure.

I hope that people take away hope, maybe not in an obvious sense, but in the form of hearing somebody who's genuinely fighting to stay above water. And in that fight, there's hope. In that fight, maybe there's positivity.

About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.