Edward Bellamy Quotes

Where you are now is not where you will always be. There are brighter days up ahead.

May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

Even places that have been shrouded in darkness for billions of years can be illuminated. Even a stone from the bottom of a river can be used to produce fire. Our present sufferings, no matter how dark, have certainly not continued for billions of years--nor will they linger forever. The sun will definitely rise. In fact, its ascent has already begun.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

… we should not indulge in looking backwards with envy to the past, but to keep our eyes ahead of us with hope for the future.

I have often ... looked at that sun behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now, at length, I have the happiness to know that it is a rising sun and not a setting sun.

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society...may unexpectedly come forth...to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!...Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn...Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

One should look forward rather than backwards.

Out of these ashes beauty will rise.

Today's teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows.

I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.

I know my past is not what my future holds.

Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.

Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

As we step out of the way new things are born.

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.