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Quotes About Optimism

Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope. ~Edmond Dantes
~ Alexandre Dumas
Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall design to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words - 'Wait and hope'.
~ Alexandre Dumas
It is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.
~ Alexandre Dumas
All human wisdom is summed up in these two words,— Wait and hope.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Yet what is expectation but a kind of folly, and what is that folly but an excess of hope?
~ Alexandre Dumas
If you believe in "luck", always let it be good luck. Always choose to be "lucky", rather than "luckless". Be "happy", rather than "hapless".
~ Donald L. Hicks
Light always overcomes darkness.
~ Donald L. Hicks
In Martin Seligman's words, 'Psychology is half-baked, literally half-baked. We have baked the part about mental illness. We have baked the part about repair and damage. But the other side is unbaked. The side of strengths, the side of what we are good at, the side…of what makes life worth living.
~ Donald O. Clifton
As the wit W. C. Fields advised: 'If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. There is no point making a fool of yourself.' This advice is easy to give and difficult to put into practice, but as you build your strengths, sometimes making great progress, sometimes slipping back, take comfort from the fact that this is how a strong life is supposed to be lived.
~ Donald O. Clifton
Why don't you knock it off with those negative waves...
~ Donald Sutherland
Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
~ Donald Trump
There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.
~ Donella Meadows
It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.
~ Donna Freitas
Delete the negative accentuate the positive!
~ Donna Karan
Accent your positive and delete your negative.
~ Donna Karan
12 Keep your thoughts positive about the future, as what you are thinking influences your future. This is a message to keep your faith and hope strong, because these are strong determining factors right now.
~ Doreen Virtue
love-based thought that focuses on the possibilities and directs the situation toward a happy outcome.
~ Doreen Virtue
Focus upon what you want, not upon what you don't want.
~ Doreen Virtue
Bottom line: Refuse to accept negative ideas about what you can't accomplish or what's impossible. Don't even talk to negative people while your dreams are still in the fragile incubation stage!
~ Doreen Virtue
Sé que los objetos mantienen la energía del dolor emocional del dueño, así como de sus creencias respectos a las finanzas. Prefiero pagar el precio máximo de un objeto que tenga el optimismo del dueñode un negocio próspero.
~ Doreen Virtue
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." — HELEN KELLER (1880–1968)
~ Doreen Virtue
May your troubles be less Your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness Come through your door.
~ Dorien Kelly