Florence Henderson Quotes

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

Hope is like compassion to me. It's like possibility and living in possibility.

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.

I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.

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?

We cannot give up hope. It's our most important gift.

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.

The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.

Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. It is a process of positive reassurance and reinforcement. It is sunshine when clouds block the light.

Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.

I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.

Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill.

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

It's very important to remain optimistic and to see the silver lining in everything you do. Because no matter how sometimes things look difficult, and look like there is no hope, there is always a small glimmering of silver lining that is in everything, and I always look for that, and hang on that, and before I know it, another day comes and is gone.

Hope keeps you alive.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

"Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. "My own spirits is not equal to it, but I don't owe it any grudge. I envys them that is so blest!"

You have to carry the fire." I don't know how to." Yes, you do." Is the fire real? The fire?" Yes it is." Where is it? I don't know where it is." Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.

Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours. And while we might stub our toes and bruise our knees, if we keep moving forward, even when our progress is slow and painful, we will overcome and be made better by our journey. … No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so.

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.