I knew a lot of people who were beaten by the Depression, but there was still a feeling of positiveness among people: everyone thought it's got to get better. We were all trying to get the country back on its feet. There was a feeling that you could do anything, and this was certainly very true in the theater.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the resilience and hope of people during tough times, especially in the context of the Depression.
Norman Lloyd's quote speaks to the indomitable spirit of individuals during the Great Depression, a time marked by hardship and uncertainty. Despite the challenges, there was a prevailing sense of optimism and communal effort to rebuild and improve society. Lloyd highlights this positivity particularly within the theater, where creativity and collaboration flourished as a means to uplift spirits and inspire change.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech focused on overcoming adversity.
Men ablaze are invincible. Hell trembles when men kindle. The stronghold of Satan is proof against everything but fire. The Church is powerless without the flame of the Holy Ghost. Destitute of fire, nothing else really counts; possessed of fire, nothing else really matters. The one vital need is fire. Without the flame and fervour of the Holy Ghost the Church will never accomplish its mission.
When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.
Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.
We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking.
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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