Quotes About Optimism

the planning fallacy—the systematic tendency toward unrealistic optimism about the time it takes to complete projects.

If people are running risks because of unrealistic optimism, they might be able to benefit from a nudge. In fact, we have already mentioned one possibility: if people are reminded of a bad event, they may not continue to be so optimistic. Gains

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

It's been my experience that worse-case scenarios are very rare indeed. Rare to the extend that you can almost count on them not happening.

A seed that lands upside down in the ground will wheel --root and stem--in a great U-turn until it rights itself. But a human child can know it's pointed wrong and still consider the direction well worth a try.

To hope, which finds roots in the most infertile of soils.

Whenever I feel afraid I hold my head erect and whistle a happy tune.

Bonaventure's theology is never about trying to placate a distant or angry God, earn forgiveness, or find some abstract theory of justification. He is all cosmic optimism and hope! Once it lost this kind of mysticism, Christianity became preoccupied with fear, unworthiness, and guilt much more than being included in—and delighting in—an all-pervasive plan that is already in place.

Faith is the opposite of resentment, cynicism, and negativity. Faith is always, finally, a self-fulfilling prophecy. Faith actually begins to create what it desires. Faith always recreates the good world.

You do not have to see the sun to know that it is still shining.

She gave him a smile in which hope and knowledge were going at it, bare-knuckled, equally and eternally matched.

The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.

I also think it's possible for us to be better people tomorrow than we are today." He had no idea, of course, whether any of these things were true, in whole or in part. Still, what possible good could come of believing otherwise? —

But six months always seemed a long way off to Sully, who was by and large an optimist and who always concluded that in six months he'd be better off than he was now for the simple reason that he couldn't be any worse off.

There was something about spending money they didn't really have that made him optimistic about more coming in.

The message from this type of work is simple – if you want to cheer yourself up, behave like a happy person.

if you want to cheer yourself up, behave like a happy person.

Maybe some of these new changes in her life weren't going to be so bad after all.

Happiness is just the absence of pain. It's the best I can hope for.

Hope is a lie that becomes true

Right, she said, We're going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn't think negative.

If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.

Keep moving. Don't get bogged down. Don't think about the bad stuff. Smile and joke even when you don't feel like it. Especially when you don't feel like it.

Rainbows. Very Macho! ~Leo Valdez