Quotes About Optimism

I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.

A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.

You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?

No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

And smile, you know I always tell the girls to smile because I hate sad faces.

Why don't people just accept that life is sad and cheer up? After all, it's not going to last for ever.

Today,' said Lymond, 'if you must know, I don't like living at all. But that's just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I'll be bright as a bedbug again.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

If you think of beautiful things, you're not sad.

If love found me it can surely find you. I ain't even got one sad tear left in me.

When given the choice, we'd all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we'll all be sad later.

Life isn't all that sad. I'm a happy person.

I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I'm relieved that hope isn't a tangible thing, because everyone around me would see mine crumbling.

Hope is a better friend than despair.

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.

Some blessings have been ours in the past, and these may be repeated or even multiplied.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.