Quotes About Optimism

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

It is useless for you to consider the reason of this, or the meaning of that. Take things as they come in due order: one circumstance explains the other, and everything is always for the best.

Icilma always noted that their poverty never ran so deep as to prevent them from beautifying their surroundings:

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

She closed one eye and looked at me and said, I know there is a blessing in this somewhere.

I believe it is only prudent to make a very high estimate of human nature, first of all in order to contain the worst impulses of human nature, and then to liberate its best impulses.

I know it'll be all right, but it makes me mad.

Tutta questa cittadina somiglia davvero alla speranza, quando ha cominciato a logorarsi un po', e poi si logora un altro po'. Ma una speranza rinviata resta sempre una speranza.

When someone remarked in his hearing that he had lost an eye in the Civil War, he said "I prefer to remember that I have kept one.

Giant miseries and giant hopes can carry on their wars in the merest cranny.

the worst misfortune isn't only misfortune

Life is Beautiful

Mi optimismo se apoya en esta convicción antigramsciana: no es la intelligentsia la que hace la historia. Por lo general, los pueblos —esas mujeres y hombres sin cara y sin nombre, las «gente del común», como los llamaba Montaigne— son mejores que la mayoría de sus intelectuales: más sensatos, más pragmáticos, más democráticos, más libres, a la hora de decidir sobre asuntos sociales y políticos.

A felicidade e os sonhos acabavam de ganhar nova vida. Enquanto houvesse um homem por perto, havia esperança.

Don't ask for the moon -- we have the stars! Pardon my saying so, but fuck the fucking stars!

I didn't want to waste another minute on it. My life was meant to begin. The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all.

My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical.

The invitations to the New Year's Eve party at the American embassy in Saigon would read, "Come see the light at the end of the tunnel.

There is a hopefulness to the human spirit that will just not accept no for an answer.

Glauben ist das Vertrauen ins Unmögliche.

Just think about today. Think about things that have happened. Especially about good things that have happened.

Life is a cowpat sandwich Jimbo.' he sighed 'with a very thin bread and lots of filling.

If you had a sad childhood, so what? You can dance with only one leg and see the snowflake falling with only one eye. —ROBERT BLY

The leader steps into an organization in its darkest hour and says, "Friends, you only thought this was your darkest hour. In fact, this is your greatest opportunity. Let me show you why that's true." Note