Quotes About Optimism

Never think winter will last when spring is equally inevitable.

The filing of citizenry out from coffee shops always reminds Iris of cattle coming out of a barn in the morning, in their slow, blinking line. Not the most flattering of images, but for her, it's calming, suggesting a kind of optimism about at least one thing in the world. A new day. A new start.

progress he'd made. Advance to Boardwalk. He couldn't help it; he started whistling.

I think it was Robert Frost who said that everything he had learned about life could be summed up in three words: it goes on

the truth is that all anyone can do is take each day as it comes. To see life as an imperfect offering and focus always on making the best of what we have at any given moment. And to have faith in…well, whatever we can have faith in.

Portia was affected differently. She felt very quiet with happiness Oh, I just hope and pray, she said. And Mrs. Cheever walking lightly beside her, said: Well, I have a feeling, Portia, I have a feeling in my bones that your wish is going to come true. Do you, Aunt Minnehaha? Honestly? Cross your heart? I cross my heart, said Mrs. Cheever. Yes, indeed I do.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

Looking at your day from a "golden day" perspective helps you prioritize.

A sudden joyful hope sprang into Mart's mind.

And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight.

Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)

If you're going to live your life based on delusions (and you are, because we all do), then why not at least select a delusion that is helpful?

I'm choosing happiness over suffering.

But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.

Where there is life, George, there is hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough to us all. I would hesitate to wish it hastened upon anyone.

It's all for the best.

There are so many good reasons to stop complaining if you want to live a more creative life.

If you're going to live your life based on delusions (and you are, because we all do), then why not at least select a delusion that is helpful?

Whenever I got those rejection letters, then, I would permit my ego to say aloud to whoever had signed it: "You think you can scare me off? I've got another eighty years to wear you down! There are people who haven't even been born yet who are gonna reject me someday—that's how long I plan to stick around.

It's all for the best, I know it is. I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. I know all this. But still…

We must risk delight," he wrote. "We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and then I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

The hardest part of your life is behind you now.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.")