Quotes About Optimism

Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove away, I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on.

It's gonna be okay, I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. It will.

There's no shame in trying to make stuff work, is how I see it. It's better than just accepting the broken.

He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

You didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference.

But you don't have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt." "You don't have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn't always out to get you.

You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.

When you have lost hope, you lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.

I don't think anybody ever really knows what's going to happen, he said. We're all just out here hoping for the best.

It wasn't so much that I was positive. I just wasn't fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.

I looked at the sweatshirt again. 'You swim' is a philosophy? He shrugged. Better than 'you sink', right?

So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

It took a lot to have hope in this world where so little evidence of it existed. Maybe if nothing bad had ever happened, you didn't even consider those clouds and storms ahead. But for the rest of us, even the brightest sunshine carried a chance of rain.

It took a lot to have hope in this world where so little evidence of it existed.

In a perfect wedding- or world- you wanted the best possible beginning. Start in a high note and, no matter what song follows, chances are just better that it will be music to your ears.

If you try something, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again.

perfect was just over the next hill, close enough to make out the landscape. And it wasn't a place he would just visit. He was going to live there.

In a marriage, it's not just whether you see the glass as half-full or half-empty. It's whether you see it those two ways, or any of the other endless fractions that are possible.

Oh, ye of little faith," he said cheerfully. "I'm just getting started.

I closed my eyes and saw not the flat black of the dark but something else. Something brighter, closer to light, shining small but ever steady. More than enough to go on as a part of me pushed up and out, finally, to meet it there.

keeping a positive outlook does wonders for your health.

In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of mourn together, suffer together. City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan.