Quotes About Optimism

There will be other days. And other feelings.

The problem is not that the world is a mess, but that we expect it to be otherwise.

The bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view.

Failure is a trick of the light.

It is easier to learn to be soaked and happy than to learn how to stop the rain.

You don't need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.

I've never had a coconut chilli Martini before,' I tell him. 'That's the thing with getting older. You run out of new things to try.' 'Oh, I don't know,' he says, still the optimist. 'I have lived beside one ocean or another most of my life and I have yet to see the same wave twice. It's the mana, you see. It's everywhere. It's never still. It keeps the world new. The whole planet is a coconut chilli Martini.

There was no use trying to think of a way, because it was impossible. And the only way you could make something impossible real wasn't through logic or sensible thinking. No. It was to believe it could be done.

Nothing is stronger then a small hope that doesn't give up

But, as time grew on, I knew something I hadn't known earlier. I knew that down wasn't the only direction. If you hung in there, if you stuck it out, then things got better. They get better and then they get worse and then they get better.

Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up.

the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment'.

You didn't have to enjoy every aspect of each life to keep having the option of experiencing them. You just had to never give up on the idea that there would be a life somewhere that could be enjoyed.

Don't worry about the time you lose to despair. The time you will have afterwards has just doubled its value.

A reminder for the tough times One day this will be over. And we will be grateful for life in ways we never felt possible before.

Far from being a curse, uncertainty can be a source of hope.

To remember during the bad days It won't last.

right. The game wasn't over. No player should give up if there were pieces still left on the board.

But it is important to remember the bottom of the valley never has the clearest view. And that sometimes all you need to do in order to rise up again is to keep moving forward.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller, We Bereaved

Will my life be miraculously free from pain, despair, grief, heartbreak, hardship, loneliness, depression? No. But do I want to live? Yes. *Yes.* A thousand times, yes.

That is the nature of things. History was -is- a one-way street. You have to keep walking forwards. But you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.

Hope, in its simplest form, is the acceptance of possibility.

Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up.