Desmond Tutu Quotes

But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.

There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!

Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom bombs. Children will grow from poverty and filth and oppression and develop honor, integrity, contribute to all mankind.

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

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?

Turn your scars into stars.

The past is lying in flames. The future will rise from the flames within our hearts.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.

In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.