Ezra Furman Quotes

Approaching life through '40 Chances' gives reasons to hope and actions to take, and it offers fresh approaches that our world desperately needs.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.

I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every 'no' lays a 'yes' that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

There's an abundance of hope in Hollywood, as if it's fueled by the sun, and maybe it is.

I wrote 'Option B' because I want other people to know it can get better, and I want to help people make it better.

All negative things you can turn positive, and for me, that is key.

It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.

If I can change, anybody can change.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

You know, all kinds of people inspire me.

It's important to be informed but I also think it's important to be inspired. I'm creating a space where people can be inspired.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

Life should not be a funeral march to the grave. We should have the capacity for being able to lift up not just public dialogue, but lift up each other in a greater cause of nationhood.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back.

I want to do stories that inspire people.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.