Lupe Fiasco Quotes

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope.

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.

Joy came always after pain.

Today's teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be happy.

Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.

I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness.

Everyone has a dark cloud hovering over them at some point, but then there is sunshine.

I try to see the lightness of life, and that comes from having a hard time growing up.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.

In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love... I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days.

I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change.

The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.