Grace Paley Quotes

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

I always tell people, 'It'll get greater later' meaning that sometimes we have to pass through whatever it is. We know that we can get through it because others have.

All you can do is just make the most of what you've got. You try to make the most of where you are to get back to where it is that you want to be.

I've realised that nothing that happens is so grim that life can't go on. Life always goes on, no matter what. Even in the grimmest situation, I see hope.

The most important thing any broken individual can do is keep their chin up and keep moving forward.

When things don't go your way, the day after you wake up and try to get better and be as good as you can be the next day.

We should be optimistic about the future even though we have a complicated present.

Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.

I might have had a tough break; but I have an awful lot to live for.

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life.

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.

I've seen a lot of highs and a lot of lows with this team, and one thing I've learned is that even though you have lows, you're not going to have them forever, so you've got to keep fighting.

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when it's gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.