Robbie Robertson Quotes

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Life without hope is no life.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.

If the truth didn't help anyone, and love didn't last, what was there left to struggle toward?

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be the severest possible satire on the acts and words that do. It is the best news that America has ever heard.... How many a man who was lately contemplating suicide has now something to live for!

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.

Ifyou believe in something, work nights and weekends, it won't feel like work.

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.

Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

hopes dance best on bald men's hair

If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

You can't unscramble eggs.

Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.

I believe very deeply that this beauty I call the soul is not a random occurrence. I don't know what its meaning is at some larger level, but I know that it has meaning.