Quotes About Optimism

Kim Stanley Robinson

To hope without hope, which would be wise, is impossible. —MARCEL PROUST, Les Plaisirs et les Jours

I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort." —The Dalai Lama

Kim Stanley Robinson

I believe that Man is good. I believe that we stand at the dawn of a century that will be more peaceful and prosperous than any in history.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson

no extinctions from this point onward are inevitable (this has always been true, however) 19,340

Cánh cá»­a cuá»™c ??i ch? m? rá»™ng ??i vá»›i nh?ng ng??i tràn ??y lòng tá»± tin tích cá»±c, nh?ng ng??i dám h?ng hái Ä'Æ°Æ¡ng ??u vá»›i cuá»™c s?ng b?ng lòng kiên trì.

Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

Gözlerimi aç?nca, eski al??kanl?k, bugün için bir ümit var m? diye düÅŸünmeye baÅŸlad?m.

Oliver was made of sterner stuff, less delicate and sensitive, more carefree, in short, the right human clay; he could endure life. Who had taken a harder knock than he? But a tiny upward turn in his fortunes, a lucky theft, a successful swindle, restored him to contentment.

Never Doubt There comes a moment when you begin to realize that virtually anything is possible - that nothing is too good to be true.

Someday all you will have to light your way will be a single ray of hope and that will be enough.

Even a passenger on an airplane falling from the sky can't shake the hope that he'll be the one to survive.

When your life has an expiration date, you don't have time to be negative. (Paraphrased from Kresley Cole's book Lothaire)

Rub some dirt on it. S'll be fine." "Rub some dirt, then?" he repeated, unable to keep the amusement from his tone. "I like your attitude, lass.

Sucedió. Dolió. Mejores cosas vendrán.

You have so much to look forward to, if you'd just stop looking back.

But I have noticed that those who continually dread ill luck and fear it will overtake them, have no time to take advantage of any good fortune that comes their way.

She kept her youth to a marvelous degree. Perhaps this was because she always seemed to preserve that attitude of delighted surprise towards life which most of us leave behind in childhood, an attitude which not only made Rosemary herself seem young but flung a pleasing illusion of youth over the consciousness of everyone who talked to her.

Do not despair whatever happens for behind the clouds is always the rainbow.

Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow. - Emperor Nick Chopper (The Tin Woodsman) -The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 86 chapter 11