Quotes About Optimism

O happy he, who still renews The hope, from Error's deeps to rise forever! That which one does not know, one needs to use; And what one knows, one uses never.

We are happiest under the influence of innocent delusions.

Wähntest du etwa, Ich sollte das Leben hassen, In Wüsten fliehen, Weil nicht alle Blütenträume reiften?

Sempre la speranza di ristabilire l'antica felicità si riaccende nell'essere umano.

Always believe.

All systems go. Everything is A-OK.

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.

Hope is foundational to our ability to look beyond our present circumstances.

I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance.

Plus, it's an optimistic sort of music. People want that at the moment. Who needs death metal when you've got the Nazis?" They

They believed my story was over, but it was nearly the beginning.

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.

If, by contrast, you think that uncovering your mistakes is one of the best ways to revise and improve your understanding of the world, then this is actually a highly optimistic insight.

After all, there have never been loonies carrying signs saying, "The End is Not Near.

RIDLEY Science writer; founding chairman, International Centre for Life; author, The Rational Optimist

If you think you can do it, you can.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative

John C. Wright

To old times, May they never come again...' 'Old time past and better times to come!

Accentuate the positive - eliminate the negative. And only the negative.

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise

Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away. But the soul can burn and not be damned.

He understood the half-life of hope: it is not despair that destroys us, but its opposite. Hope is the winding, despair the unwinding. Despair brings with it the possibility of an ending. Taken to the extreme, its logical conclusion is death. But hope sustains. It can be exploited. Ormsby