No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
- Topic: Hope, Pain
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
While there's life, there's hope.
We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.