Quotes About Optimism

U]ntil the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words,—'Wait and hope.

All human wisdom is contained in these two words- Wait and Hope.

I hope, because hope exists in man, and never abandons him until death.

rien ne fait paraître l'avenir couleur de rose comme de le regarder à travers un verre de chambertin.

Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile.

The American lives in a land of wonders, in which everything seems to be in constant flux, and every change seems to mark an advance. Hence the idea of the new is coupled in his mind with the idea of the better. Nowhere does he perceive the limits that nature may have imposed on man's efforts. In his eyes, that which does not exist is that which has not yet been attempted.

It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

Then let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.

If there be a cure, seek till you find it. If there be none, never mind it.

They believe that every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Alice Hoffman

but when there was nothing left to try it could not hurt to believe in something, however preposterous it might seem.

let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.

It was best to step into the future while it was still waiting for you.

Your sorrow will become smaller, like a star in the daylight that you can't even see. It's there, shining, but there is also a vast expanse of blue sky.

Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better.

Once we realize the immense amount of energy children can summon up in order to survive cruelty and extreme sadism, things suddenly start looking more optimistic. Then it is easy to imagine that our world could be a much better one if those children (like Rimbaud, Schiller, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche) could expend their almost limitless energies on other, more productive ends than merely fighting for their own survival.

There are people who carry decency and optimism around with them, who seem to cleanse every atmosphere they settle in, and you can't tell such people things, it is too disruptive.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Hope is a woman who has lost her fear.

That though the heart is breaking, happiness can exist in a moment, also.

Because you are who you are, the future look happy and bright.