Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

It's tough, but you can still find joy in the struggle. Going through a season with a lot of struggles, I got a lot of practice. You have to set yourself up for joy, give yourself the best opportunity to have that going on inside.

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

Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again.

Joy came always after pain.

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "I will." And try "I can."

O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

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

Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when our life ends, after which there will be only joy, only contentment, only eternal consolation.

I was always much too elated to imagine despair.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

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

You can hit the lowest low and face the darkest dark, but you can always get back up and get in the light. All of this is what actually makes life worth living.

We want to show the world that even if you go through some bad periods, you always have to think positive just to go forward.

Everyone has a dark cloud hovering over them at some point, but then there is sunshine.

My worst day, I'm just going to try and smile.

The most important thing any broken individual can do is keep their chin up and keep moving forward.

I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.

I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments.