Quotes About Optimism

Ah, well, let's not borrow trouble; the rate of interest is too high.

One can't stay sad for long in such an interesting world, can one?

But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it." ? L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

It is always safe to dream of spring. For it is sure to come; and if it be not just as we have pictured it, it will be infinitely sweeter.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

None of us ever do, said Mrs. Allan with a sigh. But then, Anne, you know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals, Anne.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining more.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed...that nothing ever came up to your expectations. Well, perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either...they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Marilla, what if I fail!' 'You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla.

If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne," said Gilbert

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon.

So bright and golden and fair, so free fro shadow and so lavish of blossom.

We'll make friends with the wind and sky and sun, and bring home spring in our hearts.

The other day Nan said, 'Nothing can ever be quite the same for any of us again.' It made me feel rebellious. Why shouldn't things be the same again - when everything is over and Jem and Jerry are back? We'll all be happy and jolly again and these days will seem just like a bad dream.

I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through

My future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

Don't give up all your romance, Anne, he whispered shyly, a little of it is a good thing—not too much, of course—but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it.

And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy, assured Anne.

Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. - Anne Shirley