Quotes About Optimism

Inténtalo tú también, alguna vez que te sientas solo y desdichado o triste y estés en la buhardilla cuando haga un tiempo tan hermoso. No mires las casas y los tejados, sino al cielo. Mientras puedas mirar al cielo sin temor, sabrás que eres puro por dentro y que, pase lo que pase, volverás a ser feliz.

Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that you're pure within and will find happiness once more.

Y el que es feliz hace feliz a los demás; el que tiene valor y fe, nunca estará sumido en la desgracia.

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 somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquthty will return once more. In the meantime, I must hold on to my ideals. Perhaps the day will come when I'll be able to realize them!

It's a good thing I'm not the grouchy type, because then I might become sour and bad-tempered.

What's the good of thinking of misery when you're already miserable? That's stupid!

It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. 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 shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

There is nothing we can do but wait as calmly as we can till the misery comes to an end.

Qué hay que hacer cuando uno se encuentra en la desgracia? ¡Salir de ella! Si no es así, uno está perdido. En cambio, juzgo que volviéndose hacia lo que es bello -la naturaleza, el sol, la libertad, lo hermoso que hay en nosotros-, nos sentimos enriquecidos.

i don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains

Ich sehe, wie die Welt allmählich in eine Wildnis verwandelt wird. Ich höre den nahenden Donner, der auch uns vernichten wird, ich kann das Leiden von Millionen spüren und dennoch glaube ich, wenn ich zum Himmel blicke, dass alles in Ordnung gehen und auch diese Grausamkeit ein Ende finden wird und dass Ruhe und Frieden wieder einkehren werden.

Ich hingegen finde, dass noch bei jedem Kummer etwas Schones ubrigbleibt. Wenn man das betrachtet, entdeckt man immer mehr Freude, un man wird wieder ausgeglichen. Und wer glucklich ist, wird auch andere glucklich machen. Wer Mut und Vertrauen hat, wird im Ungluck nicht untergehen!

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.

Friday, 16 June, 1944 ... There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others! It sounds selfish, but it's honestly the only cure for anyone who has to seek consolation in himself.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

In spite of everything I still believe that people r really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, death & misery. I c 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 & yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, & that peace & tranquility will return again.

I am young and strong and living a great adventure

Hope for an end to war, hope for peace.

My life here has gotten better, much better. God has not forsaken me, and He never will.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

Rumi: "Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

If courage is not there, if the possibility of things getting better is not there, listen a little harder.