"But it is a blessed provision of..." - Quote by Mark Twain
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.
More by Mark Twain
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
“Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.”
“I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.”
More on Hope
“I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.”
“Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.”
“Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.”