Quotes About Optimism

The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.

What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good?

Let me ask you something. Do you think there's such a thing as a perfect day?" "What?" "A perfect day. Start to finish. When nothing terrible or sad or ordinary happens. Do you think it's possible?" "I don't know." "Have you ever had one?" "No." "I've never had one either, but I'm looking for it.

Maybe. Maybe not. Whether it's filler or not, I'm pretty glad to be here." If there's anything I've learned, it's that you need to make the most of it. "It mattered enough for you not to jump.

The bad news: surviving this will be the second worst experience of your life. The good news: the worst is already over.

The happy times went away for a while, but they're coming back

The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing" -Finch

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

As tough as she is, she wants to believe in something.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

I don't know what brings you up here, but to me the town looks prettier and the people look nicer and even the worst of them look almost kind.

But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?

He smiles out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he can see Oz. As if he can really, truly, see the beauty that's there.

Hope you're keeping the dust out of your eyes and your feet off the ground.

I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it.

She knew by some sure instinct that when you had come right up against it, as Jeff had, you had no use for people who advised you to brace up, or who pointed out bright spots. She know that there is nothing so infuriating, when you are bearing all you can, as shallow, unrealistic optimism from someone who has not experienced the same disaster.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

I don't differentiate between optimism and pessimism and am at quite a loss as to which of the two characterises me. When I awake each morning I thank the lord he did not take my soul during the night. If harm befalls me during the night, I thank him that it was no worse. So which am I, a pessimist or an optimist?

Candide was an optimist, but you're a pessoptimist. That fact, I repsonded, Is a virtue that, above all others, distinguishes my people. But you, he criticized again, seem to be imitating Candide. Don't blame me for that. Blame our way of life that hasn't changed since Voltaire's day, except that El Dorado has now come to exist on this planet.

But Saeed, Saeed, the children are our only hope!

While I was sat there being my usual pessoptimistic self, he was ecstatic: Verdant fields! Green on your right and on your left; green everywhere! We have given life to what was dead. This is why we have named the borders of former Israel the Green Belt. For beyond them lie barren mountains and desert reaches, a wilderness calling out to us, 'Come you tractors of civilisation

But he was too good to be thoroughly unhappy long.

Atât de lipsit? de speran?? e lumea din afar?, încât de dou? ori mai preÅ£ioas? mi-e lumea din interior.

And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.