Quotes About Optimism

Yes, thought Mma Ramotswe, the world can be very discouraging. But we cannot sit and think about all the things that have gone wrong, or could go wrong. There was no point in doing that...There was much for which we could be grateful, whatever the sorrows of this world.

Very few people imagine their own future accurately. And then they're often pleasantly surprised.

Problems have a way of solving themselves.

There were times when life's problems were convincingly outweighed by its possibilities, and this, she felt, was one.

Elle avait ainsi gardé cette éventualité à l'esprit, enfouie parmi ces autres fragments d'espoir avec lesquels nous traversons la vie, sans y penser beaucoup, mais résolus à ne pas les laisser tout à fait s'évanouir.

Things start badly—very badly—and then they change for the better and those who have nothing, or who are unhappy, or who live in fear, suddenly find that these things that were bad for them have gone." "It's like rain," said Mma Potokwane, who had not said much but had clearly been affected by the story. "The rains come and they wash everything away. The dryness, the thirst, the dust on your skin—these are washed away, Mma, all washed away.

they would just have to make the best of the situation. When there were things that you could not change, then there was a strong case for accepting things as they were and working from there.

And that somehow made it easier for both of them; and so she had decided that even if there were no angels, we might still wish to believe in them because that made our life more bearable, and she was not ashamed to think like that.

Worse things have happened, is what she says in such circumstances. And I suppose she's right. There's always something worse happening elsewhere. It's worth reminding ourselves of that, I suppose.

She is a good housemother, that one," said Mma Ramotswe. Mma Potokwane agreed. "Whenever I hear people say that the country is going to the dogs—and there are such people, you know, Mma…

Do not allow the profession of which you are a member to induce you to take a bleak view of humanity. You will encounter all sorts of bad behavior but do not judge everybody by the standards of the lowest. If you

It is better to tell people good things, Mma—if you can.

Alexander McCall Smith

Everything could always be worse,' she would say, 'and so be grateful that things are only as bad as they are.' She

misery was nothing to do with objective good fortune. Misery was like bad weather; it was just there, and no number of optimistic comments could make the weather better.

I gaze forward without fear.

From an evil dog be glad of a handful of hairs.

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Heart lives in the future, so what if gloom pervades the present? All is fleeting, all will go; What is gone will then be pleasant.

The world looks better when your belly is full, brighter and more hopeful. After

But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues? Maximilien asked. Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.

Weakened minds see everything through a black veil; the soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of your future appears stormy and unpromising.

One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.