Quotes About Optimism

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be How much you can love What you can accomplish And what your potential is

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.

I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.

Tugs had felt a sense of possibility today as she made that small speech, and there had to be a way to get that feeling back.

There has to be a way," she said, determinedly. "Nothing is impossible." Bean stared at her. "It's impossible for us to be good at ballet." "Well, that, sure," said Ivy. "But it's not impossible for us to break our arms.

Optimism makes you less likely to walk away while not actually increasing your chances of success. That means that being overly optimistic will make you stick to things longer that aren't worthwhile. Better to be well calibrated. Life's too short to spend your time on opportunities that are no longer worthwhile.

What is true for grit is true for optimism. Optimism gets you to stick to things that are worthwhile. But optimism also gets you to stick to things that are no longer worthwhile. And life's too short to do that.

If we find the Achilles' heel," Teller told me, "thank God we found the Achilles' heel after $2 million instead of after $20 million.

An accurate picture of the odds is important when you're choosing a path. But once you've already made your choice, then you should switch into irrational optimism for the execution phase.

When we see how much negative space there really is, we shrink down the positive space to a size that more accurately reflects reality and less reflects our naturally optimistic nature.

Remember, the likelihood of positive and negative futures must add up to 100%. The positive space of backcasting and the negative space of a premortem still have to fit in a finite amount of space. When we see how much negative space there really is, we shrink down the positive space to a size that more accurately reflects reality and less reflects our naturally optimistic nature

There is a rich universe of science studying the human tendency to persevere too long, particularly in the face of bad news.