Rebecca Solnit Quotes

What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

If it makes you feel any better, this isn't my first apocalypse. There is hope.

The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

I've seen optimism because I grew up in communities of recovery where people put their lives back together and find tomorrows that they didn't think would be there. That fundamentally changed my life and is so much of where my hope comes from.

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

Even in the most difficult situation there is always, somehow, a way to triumph

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress ... I have seen how pain does not stifle the hope deep within the human heart and how life goes on, finding new strength even in the midst of difficulties.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

This is a decent and honorable country - and resilient, too. We've been through a lot together. We've met challenges and faced dangers, and we know that more lie ahead. Yet we can go forward with confidence - because the State of our Union is strong, our cause in the world is right, and tonight that cause goes on. God bless.

You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naïve. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.

A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it.

Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.

But we're alive, and together, and we're going to be all right.

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?