Corita Kent Quotes

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

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.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

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

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

No matter what happens or how difficult things become, you will eventually feel better.

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that.

Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

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.

I don’t know why terrible things happen to us sometimes. But I have to believe that something good is going to come of this.

In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.

What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.

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.

The sun will shine again. No matter... how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Hope begins in the dark.

If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.