Toni Morrison Quotes

No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

Joy came always after pain.

I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

My purpose is far greater than my pain.

God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.

We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

As in nature, as in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones their lustre; the more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, their God has no end in view but to perfect His people's graces. Our Father, and and kindest of fathers, He afflicts not willingly; He sends tribulations, but hear St Paul tell their purpose, - "Tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope."

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

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

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

The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

Even in the worst time of life, if you are still breathing, that means you are still alive. If you are still here, you haven't accomplished what is still to be accomplished. The most important part of your life is still ahead of you.

What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.