Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes

It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.

You gotta have faith. You gotta keep your head up.

Hope is a moral choice.

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

I have never been worried because when you have hope and peace, you can handle anything.

When you have hope, and you have peace, you can handle anything.

Have a little faith. Don't give up.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; in enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not abandon it to his enemy.

At the end of the day, my optimistic personality always takes over.

We cannot give up hope. It's our most important gift.

Having faith and trust that one day things will be greater, it sometimes is the one thing you need to stay positive in a negative situation.

I wanted to tell people that hope is really powerful.

To stay positive, you have to be very strong mentally.

Every day, I walk the streets with my head held high, but deep down inside, sometimes I'm like, 'I just hope I can get through the day.'

Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world.

Never lose hope under adverse situations.

You can do nothing, or you can take on the challenge of taking on the adversity. You have got to have faith. You have to have faith in whatever you believe in.

Sadness is weak; I don't believe in weakness.

Strength comes in so many forms. Not just the physical strength, but to understand the emotional strength. To have emotional vulnerability, to show that's not a weakness.