It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.
Interpretation
Acknowledging adversity is important, but maintaining hope is essential for progress.
This quote emphasizes the necessity of recognizing the harsh realities of life while also cultivating hope as a driving force. Corita Kent suggests that even in the bleakest circumstances, like darkness, there is potential for growth and beauty, much like flowers that emerge despite adversity. The interplay between acknowledging suffering and nurturing hope serves as a motivational reminder to persist in pursuing positivity and change.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to encourage people facing challenges to remain hopeful.
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
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I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here.
No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.
One person of integrity can make a difference.
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.
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