Francesca Lia Block Quotes

Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

No matter how difficult life becomes, there is always hope.

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.

All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

I'm a dreamer. That often helps me, no matter how crappy things become.

I've realised that nothing that happens is so grim that life can't go on. Life always goes on, no matter what. Even in the grimmest situation, I see hope.

I try to see the lightness of life, and that comes from having a hard time growing up.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

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

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

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

Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.

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.

Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.