Quotes About Optimism

There definitely is an overriding optimism in most of your songs. People don't mind a little misery, but they also like happy endings. It's nice to leave some hope at the end that things will work out. See, Lindsey won't do that. He'll say, "Go your own way." I wouldn't, most likely.

I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.

Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it

believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

There's a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look at the world with fresh eyes we're being childlike. When we demand instant gratification and a guarantee that everything will be ok, we're only being childish.

For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better

Abundance is possible, but only if we can imagine it and then embrace it. Will

Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason. For them, the resistance won a long time ago. When the resistance tells you not to listen to something, read something, or attend something, go. Do it. It's not an accident that successful people read more books. Symptoms

the only thing holding you back from becoming the kind of person who changes things is this: lack of faith. Faith that you can do it. Faith that it's worth doing. Faith that failure won't destroy you.

Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

The abundance mindset makes it easier to be graceful.

el único freno que te impide convertirte en la clase de persona que cambia las cosas es este: la falta de fe. Fe en que puedes hacerlo. Fe en que vale la pena hacerlo. Fe en que un fracaso no acabará contigo.

Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. kathrin jansen

Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason.

Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason. For them, the resistance won a long time ago.

Se zice c? modul cel mai bun de a te plânge este s? schimbi lucrurile în bine.

My friend Jon likes it when an airplane hits heavy turbulence. His insight is worth sharing. "The odds of a plane crashing from turbulence are essentially zero, so I sit and enjoy it. It's like a ride at an amusement park.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

When you sail, don't Pull up the anchor weeping. Be a man, do it laughing...

Hope and fear are two sides of the same coin... She didn't want to give up hope, so she was just going to have to live with the fear.

Tutto va Bene, All is Well.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well," Václav Havel, the Czech dissident, writer, and statesman, said, "but the certainty that it is worth doing no matter how it turns out.

Like a subliminal message being played under the predominant music, a sense of possibility, no matter how faint, drives a wedge between the suffering we may wake up with each day and the hopelessness that can try to move in with us on a permanent basis. It inspires us to envision a better life for ourselves. It is this glimmer of possibility that is the beginning of faith.

And in the end, unable to feel terror, mankind will go, we will all go down, down, down to happyland.