Quotes About Optimism

Fifty - it's going to be for the rest of my life. I'm going to count myself as a 50-year-old, sing like I'm 50, and act like I am, too. That's how I feel, and I believe if you have that frame of mind, it keeps you young.

I think there's a little bit of hope for the 'Love & Hip-Hop' the franchise now that Remy's part of it, and Papoose.

I believe in America. I believe in free enterprise.

No matter what you've been through or what's going on ahead, a fresh start's always good.

I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

If you are not able to do something, that is true for the present, not for the future. All the time there's a chance to go a step further. Not to be frustrated.

I get frustrated but never depressed.

I always try to find a less frustrating way to look at things.

In the darkest of times, the most fulfilling thing in the world is finding the light.

It's a conscious decision, a full-time job, to be happy.

Live life to the fullest no matter what.

Daddy was fun-loving and lighthearted - he lived life to the fullest and was not scared to take a risk.

I always say to people that you have never seen the best of me, and that's what I mean - I've never been fully fit.

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

At their core, liberals assume that humans are fundamentally good and decent. This means that we believe that people are trying the best they can to make it and only ask for help when they really need it.

I think the fundamentals of America are strong.

Life doesn't get easier but it does get funnier.

You see in such a world as this, an idealist — or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist — must be stoned to death.

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden.

He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle.

But the calm had brought a sort of courage and hope with it. Instead of giving way to thoughts of the worst, he actually found he was trying to believe in better things.