"Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope."

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"Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope."

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"I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don't know quite yet but I can't wait to, and that is the start of everything."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

Hope, Breath, Change, Self

"It is currently said that hope goes with youth, and lends to youth its wings of a butterfly; but I fancy that hope is the last gift given to man, and the only gift not given to youth. Youth is pre-eminently the period in which a man can be lyric, fanatical, poetic; but youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged; God has kept that good wine until not. It is from the backs of the elderly gentlemen that the wings of the butterfly should burst."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Hope, Youth, Faith, Inspirational

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Hope, Being

"I can't take the ring. It means-it means too much to you. It's all you have left of them."That's why it's better if you have it, he said, and held out the box, cupped in one hand."Because you can make it a better memory. I can barely look at this thing without seeing the past. I don't want to see the past anymore. I want to see the future. He didn't blink, and she felt the breath leave her body. "You're the future, Claire."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

Hope, Memory, Future, Love, Past

"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Hope, Humanity, Despair, Optimism

"Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home."

Stephen King, American Author

Hope, Truth, Today, Power, Inspirational

"I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness."

Stephen King, American Author

Hope, Today, Happiness, Truth, Inspirational

"The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will."

Stephen King, American Author

Hope, Power, Truth, Regret, Inspirational

"They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food."

Stephen King, American Author

Hope, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Happiness

"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

Hope, Dreams, Forgiveness, Goal, Goodness

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"The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so."

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"I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey."

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"If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check."

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"You're blessed if you have the strength to work."

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"I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don't know quite yet but I can't wait to, and that is the start of everything."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."

"Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home."

"I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness."

"The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will."

"They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food."

"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."

Explore more quotes by Mahalia Jackson

"The trouble with records is that they're too short."

"They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills."

"My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me."

"Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help."

"The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so."

"One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it."

"God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands."

"I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey."

"If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check."

"You're blessed if you have the strength to work."