Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

Spook: No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.

If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.

The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd.” I look at him, baffled. “No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before the dawn!

What makes night within us may leave stars.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

If it makes you feel any better, this isn't my first apocalypse. There is hope.

I know the heart of life is good.

We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that.

You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.

Have faith. We will do

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.

It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . . I'll get my revenge.

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.