Quotes About Optimism

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness. I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.

Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.

At such moments, I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.

I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.

But I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take it too seriously.

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

Once again St. Nicholas Day Has even come to our hideaway; It won't be quite as fun, I fear, As the happy day we had last year. Then we were hopeful, no reason to doubt That optimism would win the bout, And by the time this year came round, We'd all be free, and safe and sound. Still, let's not forget it's St. Nicholas Day, Though we've nothing left to give away. We'll have to find something else to do: So everyone please look in their shoe!

when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too will end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Chins up, stick it out, better times will come.

As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that you're pure within and will find happiness once more.

I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are good at heart.

It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

This is the beginning of the end (talking about the war)... Everyone was saying... But the British Prime Minister said, This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Do you see the difference?

We jumped for joy. After the awful events of yesterday, finally something good happens and brings us...hope! Hope for an end to the war, hope for peace.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too will end, that peace and tranquillity will return once more.

As long as this exists, I thought, and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts, I cannot be unhappy.

Keep your spirits up! I'm doing my best, though it's not always easy. Your time may come sooner than you think.

There's only one thing to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else!

I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too. Your

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Where there's hope, there's life.