Ally Condie Quotes

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

We are all stronger than we can ever imagine being. Every choice matters starting with today. And today, I choose to live.

That's how we find our way outward and onward. By holding onto beauty hardest. By cradling it like the cure that it is. By making it realer than anything ever was. The rest is just monsters and ghosts.

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

Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.

Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.

I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

Don't give up. Reach down inside of you and you'll find something left.

Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.

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.

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.

I will walk by faith, even when I cannot see.

One [reality] is that I am responsible for my attitude. I can be in prison, and I happen to get a chance to go outside. I can look at the mud, or I can look at the stars. I am the one who decides which way to look. That is true for every one of us.

When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.