Quotes About Hope

Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom

Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World

I want, more than anything, to bring some light back to people's lives through my music. The beauty of music is that it is a universal language that everyone understands.

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.