Oswald Chambers Quotes

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

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.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

You've got to believe you can win. But I believe respect for the fact that you can lose is what you always have to keep in mind so that nothing suprises you.

Sufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

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.

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

I love to smile, even through pain.

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless

Get used to disappointment.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.