Jacopo Sannazaro Quotes

There is and must be a remedy for all Evils.

After a casual listen, it might be easy to lump Rocky Votolato in with the downtrodden likes of Conor Oberst and Elliott Smith. But his songwriting is a bit more triumphant than theirs: Votolato would rather pull himself out of a gutter than wallow in it, focusing instead on the victory before the misery.

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.

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

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

Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.

I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they're gonna get better, that there's a higher lesson to what I'm going through. It can be hard sometimes, and to turn it around like that, that's true faith.

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for movies to leave people with a sense of hope.

Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.

We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.