Joseph Goebbels Quotes

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century can not draw its poetry from the past, it can draw that only from the future.

I do not fear … rupture—rupture with habits of thought, with ideas, with behaviors of the past that have prevented us from advancing, from grasping the future between our two arms … I want a rupture with conformity … with half heartedness … with conservatism … with immobility. This rupture I believe necessary. This rupture I have betrothed myself to. This rupture the French people have approved. This rupture I will perform.

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.

From the end spring new beginnings.

9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Life begins on the other side of despair.

We have it within our power to begin the world over again.