Langston Hughes Quotes

Maybe I'm flattering myself, but I think my view of humanity has got steadily sunnier since I was 15. I have a higher opinion of politicians, for instance, than I did when I first moved to Washington.

"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

My dear, with your love I can calmly face my impending trial, having no regrets about the choices I've made and optimistically awaiting tomorrow.

We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.

a few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.

She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.

There is no fyre without some smoke.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

Better halfe a loafe than no bread.

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

My grandmother always would say, "This, too, shall pass." It is always true.

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true

Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white sheet on the board with a dot in the right hand corner and said, "Boys, what do you see?" And we all shouted, a black dot. He stood back and said, "not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet, you all saw the black dot." He went on to tell us to focus on the broader picture, don't focus on the negative.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.