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Quotes About Optimism

Sometimes it's not the light in a person that you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I truly expect that Vittorio will find us before the year is out. But sometimes it is better to live a short good life, than an evil long one.   Most Sincerely Yours, Gwen The
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Even in your closest friendships, you're alone. Maybe it's your best friend who, in fact, reminds you, just by making it her business to try to know your heart, that no one can - that our fate is to suffer in isolation and then die. But it's our collective fate! So I guess I'm an optimist.
~ Lauren Fox
Sounds like you've got it all planned out. Honey, I've got more plans than Wes has ugly shoes. And that's a lot. I laugh. It sure is, she says with a sigh.
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Plants make way more seeds than they need, because they know that life is not perfect and all the seeds won't make it.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The yellow sun rose, a giant balloon filled with prayers and hopes and promise.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I'm feeling pretty damn good for a change.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
No use crying, just get on with your life.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Life, I announced, is not a B picture. Well, it ain't no De Mille epic either, boss. Things'll work out, Bernie.
~ Lawrence Block
I told Carolyn it was a great day for running, and she told me there was no such thing.
~ Lawrence Block
The answer is, be positive in spite of what you have or what's happening. That's how to be happy.
~ Lawrence Crane
Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?
~ Anne Frank
Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
~ James Taylor
Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.
~ Joseph Parker
Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
~ Nancy Mitford
Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.
~ Karen Salmansohn
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.
~ Rachel Simon