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Quotes About Optimism

To be hopeful in an artistic sense it is not necessary to think that the world is good. It is enough to believe that there is no impossibility of it being made so.
~ Joseph Conrad
oh youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it!
~ Joseph Conrad
While there's life there is hope, truly; but there is fear, too.
~ Joseph Conrad
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard, absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains.
~ Joseph Conrad
The world is to the young.
~ Joseph Conrad
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
~ Joseph Heller
They were the most depressing group of people Yossarian had ever been with. They were always in high spirits.
~ Joseph Heller
Légy hálás, amiért egészséges vagy. – Keseredj el, amiért nem leszel mindig az. – Örülj, hogy élsz. – Dühöngj, hogy meg kell halnod. – Rosszabbul is állhatnának a dolgok – kiáltotta Scheisskopf hadnagy felesége. – Átkozottul jobban is állhatnának – felelte szenvedélyesen Yossarian.
~ Joseph Heller
Choose to believe that something good can happen and is happening now. Your greatest power is your capacity to choose. Choose happiness and abundance.
~ Joseph Murphy
YOU ARE AS YOUNG AS YOU THINK YOU ARE
~ Joseph Murphy
Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish.
~ Joseph Murphy
Just keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the best, and make sure the thoughts you habitually think are based on whatsoever things are lovely, true, just and of good report.
~ Joseph Murphy
You must choose happiness. Happiness is a habit. It is a good habit on which to ponder often.
~ Joseph Murphy
Never finish a negative statement; reverse it, immediately, and wonders will happen in your life.
~ Joseph Murphy
Keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the best, and your subconscious will faithfully reproduce your habitual thinking.
~ Joseph Murphy
8. Keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the best, and your subconscious will faithfully reproduce your habitual thinking.
~ Joseph Murphy
Henceforth, I shall grow more good-humored. Joy, happiness, and cheerfulness are now becoming my normal states of mind.
~ Joseph Murphy
She can who believes she can! He can who believes he can.
~ Joseph Murphy
Think good and good follows.
~ Joseph Murphy
On a cloudy day, the sun is not absent; it is merely obscured by the clouds. To experience the sun, we don't need to manufacture a new sun in front of the clouds. When the clouds part, the sun will be there, shining brightly.
~ Joseph Parent
Keep your thinking in the present—don't count your chickens before they hatch, and you won't be so disappointed with a broken egg once in a while.
~ Joseph Parent
It's not whether you win or lose in life that's important but whether you play the game. Lose enough and eventually you will win. It's only a matter of time.
~ Joseph Sugarman
The very best, most optimistic hope we can cling to is that we're tic birds who ride the rhino's back and eat the parasites out of the flesh and keep the beast from disease and hope we're not parasites too. In the end we suspect it's all vanity and delusion. Parasites, all of us." "Yeah
~ Joseph Wambaugh
It is a signal feature of depression that, in times of trouble, sensible ideas, memories of good times, and optimism for the future all recede into blackness.
~ Joshua Wolf Shenk