Quotes About Optimism

All these squalls to which we have been subjected are signs that the weather will soon improve and things will go well for us, because it is not possible for the bad or the good to endure forever, and from this it follows that since the bad has lasted so long, the good is close at hand. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

It's hard to live on hope. Living on hope you get thin and tired. Hope pares you away from the inside. You're all the time living in the future. In the future things will be better, you hope, and you'll feel better and you won't wake up feeling like someone has been taking the life of you drip by drip while you slept.

that easy Irishry that shrugs its shoulders at the practical world and goes on down the road in the cool of an evening whistling a tune.

It's hard to live on hope. Living on hope you get thin and tired. Hope pares you away from the inside. You're all the time living in the future. In the future things will be better, you hope, and you'll feel better and you won't wake up feeling like someone has been taking the life out of you drip by drip while you slept.

To have hope you have to have faith. That's the crazy bit. You have to believe things could get better. You have no idea how exactly, but somehow. It's a blindness thing, faith.

My hope has a small h.

All these squalls to which we have been subjected are signs that the weather will soon improve and things will go well for us, because it is not possible for the bad or the good to endure forever, and from this it follows that since the

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it's definitely a Thing with Claws.

Yo no me pongo triste fácilmente Para serles sincero Hasta las calaveras me dan risa.

If you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be. You have to go through the motions of surviving in order to survive.

Pauline had once said to me, after she was through the worst of her stunned unhappiness, that if you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be.

Je zult zien, je zult zien, ooit wordt alles anders, morgen nog niet misschien, maar ooit wordt alles anders. Je zult zien, je zult zien, het is nog niet voorbij. Ik weet niet hoe en ik weet niet waar, maar je zult zien, ooit wordt alles anders.

The arc of our evolutionary history is long. But it bends towards goodness

We're still a long way from knowing where our clicks will lead us. But it's clear that two of the hopes most dear to the Internet optimists—that the Web will create a more bountiful culture and that it will promote greater harmony and understanding—should be treated with skepticism. Cultural impoverishment and social fragmentation seem equally likely outcomes.

But you see Annie, where there's pain, there's still feeling and where there's feeling, there's hope.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

When life is awful, it's a terrible thing to live without hope. There's nothing worse than to believe that nothing will ever change – that every day will continue to be like every other.

Hope is optimism with a broken heart.

Act as though there is nothing wrong, and you can make it true, for a while.

His hazel eyes shone with something. Perhaps it was the reflection of new leaves. She hoped so.

To deny that a "human nature" exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history.