Quotes About Optimism

JUDGE. And before we start I want you all to realize that there's no problem too big to solve. Into every life a little rain must fall. Every cloud must have a silver lining, and it is always darkest before the dawn. LIZ. Well, now that we've had the weather report, let's get on with the case.

Keep hope alive!

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

The pursuit of happiness: skipping is your best chance of catching it.

The truth as I see it is that people can both struggle and remain upbeat simultaneously, through even the most soul-testing of challenges.

And there is hope on the road. It's a by-product of forward momentum. A sense of opportunity, as wide as the country itself. A bone-deep conviction that something better will come.

a glimpse of utopia.

You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.

If we have no place to go where we can escape that reaction to our bodies, where is it that we're not forced? The idea that these crimes are escapable is the blind optimism of men who don't understand what it means to live in a body that attracts a particular kind of attention with magnetic force.

So while my refusal to keep laughing or making you comfortable may seem like a real fucking downer, the truth is that this is what optimism looks like. Naming what is happening to us, telling the truth about it--as ugly and uncomfortable as it can be--means that we want to change. That we know it is not inevitable.

Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?

Those who unconsciously despair yet put on the mask of optimism are not necessarily wise. But those who have not given up hope can succeed only if they are hardheaded realists, shed all illusions, and fully appreciate the difficulties.

Nietzsche had disturbed the complacent optimism of the nineteenth century; so had Marx in a different way. Another warning had come somewhat late from Freud.

Çünkü devrim, hiçbir zaman umutsuzluk temeli üzerine kurulmam??t?r ve de kurulamaz.

Umut, inanç'a eÅŸlik eden ruh halidir. Umutluluk hali olmaks?z?n inanç ayakta duramaz, dayan?ks?z kal?r. Umut yaln?z ve yaln?z inanç temeli üzerinde durabilir.

Das wäre ja gelacht', dachte Jonathan Trotz, 'wenn das Leben nicht schön wäre!

our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life

we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.

We have to take things as lightly as we can, so we make the most of every opportunity, and nonsense stands stark and immediate beside horror. It cannot be otherwise, that is how we hearten ourselves

The speech set a pattern that he would follow throughout the war, offering a sober appraisal of facts, tempered with reason for optimism. "It would be foolish to disguise the gravity of the hour," he said. "It would be still more foolish to lose heart and courage.

But one thing was quite clear.... [Sol Bloom, chief of the Midway] wrote. [B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.

B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.