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Quotes About Optimism

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
~ Andre Gide
Once I had made my mind up, I could see nothing but the advantages.
~ Andre Gide
There was no reason to get upset over one missed opportunity when so many more lay ahead.
~ Andrew Beyer
Life is beautiful. Life is worth fighting for. It's not what happens to you, it's what you do with it.
~ Andrew Matthews
Lovers don't leave if there's any hope at all.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Life, it's so unlikely," she said, then turned to me again. "It's so much better than we think it is, isn't it?
~ Andrew Sean Greer
The heart will hear only one sound. A "no" will pass unnoticed, and a "good-bye" will be heard only as a deferral of hope; the future is unmarred, pushed forward by events but untouched by them because the heart sees only a perfect future with its beloved, and hears only news about that future. The rest, as they say, is noise. There is only one sound it can hear. There is only "yes.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
The Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno wrote, "It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.
~ Andrew Solomon
The wish to fix people reflects pessimism about their condition and optimism about the method of repair.
~ Andrew Solomon
Great idea!' I say. 'Let's load
~ Andy Griffiths
You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don't believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.
~ Angelina Jolie
we did the very best we could. Something good has got to come out of it somewhere.
~ Anita Stansfield
when life gives you lemons, say, yeah I like lemons, what else ya got?
~ Ann Brashares
But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.
~ Ann Brashares
Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
~ Ann Brashares
Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks. The traffic signal that said walk the second you got there, that happened to every person in the course of a day.
~ Ann Brashares
Iban a sumirla en la tristeza antes de hacerla feliz? No, por favor.
~ Ann Brashares
He liked the right before part of things, when it was impossible to be disappointed.
~ Ann Hood
Pop once said it's a good thing we don't know what's around the corner. I didn't understand what he meant then, but I do now. It's better to wish than to know.
~ Ann M. Martin
At this point I was just hoping he wasn't going to be scarred for life.
~ Ann M. Martin
And I knew it would.
~ Ann M. Martin
that paradise awaits
~ Sam Harris
DODGE: You're a funny chicken, you know that? SHELLY: Funny? DODGE: Full of hope. Faith. Faith and hope. You're all alike, you hopers. If it's not God then it's a man. If it's not a man then it's a woman. If it's not a woman then it's politics or bee pollen or the future of some kind. Some kind of future.
~ Sam Shepard
Vea con buen humor sus fracasos y no los tome muy en serio
~ Sam Walton