Randy Pausch Quotes

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

No matter what happens or how difficult things become, you will eventually feel better.

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

Keys to Finding Hope: 1. Hope depends upon taking care that we have at least two alternatives, in every situation we find ourselves, and with every task confronting us. 2. In any situation, no matter how much we may feel we are at the mercy of vast forces out there, that are totally beyond our control, we can always find something that is within our control, however small, and work on that. 3. Nothing that happens to us is just senseless and meaningless. In the context of our total life, it will eventually turn out to have meaning.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

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.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?

I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about.

Anything can happen, so you have to control your attitude and stay strong.

My advice to people with any disease is to live above it.

I can only control what I can control at the end of the day, so some things you just can't allow to take your head the other way, some things happen for a reason.

If your worst fear can come true, and everything can still be OK, then there's really not much to fear at all.

I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.