Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.

I just want to be a light of hope for anyone who might be in the dark.

There can be no darkness where I provide the light.

My message to you all is hope, courage and confidence.

Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

Hope, like the gleaming taper

Honestly, the world can be a dark enough place. Light it up.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.

In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

My first thought is always of light.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

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.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.

I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.

African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.

We have to inspire people and give them a sense of hope. We need to bring people along, not ridicule and tear them down.

Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

My songs are not angry or bitter, because I am not bitter. I'm hopeful, and as an artist I have to be, not just for my future or for the future of my children but for the whole world.

If somebody has hope, don't take that away from them, because maybe that's all they have.

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.