The future will be better tomorrow.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I love imperfections.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.