Quotes About Optimism

I did a lot of great things in the past, but I live for today and for the future.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.

Tools, check. Sandwiches and coffee, check. Work clothes, hip boots, unbridled optimism entirely out of proportion to our experience with the task at hand…

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth.

Better to hope for the best and deal with the worst, than expect the worst and miss the best.

I don't want to be the dark cloud in anyone's day. It's better to be the sunshine than the rain.

I'm the buttercream frosting on the stale cake that is life.

Be the sunshine, Eva, not the rain. She never, ever, wanted to be the black cloud in anyone's day.

You had to approach life with optimism and hope, otherwise where was the pleasure? Where was the fun? Better to hope for the best and deal with the worst, than expect the worst and miss the best.

You get through a second, and then a minute. And then another minute. You don't think about the length of the journey, you focus on each step. One at a time. And one day you'll pause and realize you're starting to enjoy the view.

because she is already a doer who, I am certain, is fully capable of making all her dreams come true." Well, maybe not all> my dreams, I thought, smiling to Ian, who was smiling back. But most. Which was fine, since I'd learned that getting most of what you wish for in life is often as good as getting it all.

The trick is realize that the shit that falls on you is fertilizer. -Ron Mangravite

That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.

You don't think about all these colours when everything's going all right; you'd go mad if you did. You just think about the colour on the top. But those colours are there, all the same. All the quarrels, and the bits of unkindness. And every so often something happens to put a chip right through; and then you can't not think of them.' She looked up, and grew self-conscious;

The gloss would fade in about five minutes as the surface dried; but everything faded. The vital thing was to make the most of the moments of brightness.

This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. —PSALM 118:24

THIS IS THE DAY THAT I HAVE MADE. Rejoice and be glad in it.

This is the day that the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it." It helps

Let your thoughts and spoken words be richly flavored with trust and thankfulness.

Bad things happen, but good things happen, too, ma'am. Sometimes you must make yourself know about the good things. Especially in India.

Happiness really isn't that hard to find.

So, you know what? I'm not ready to write Gen Y off just yet and neither should you, because I think we're going to grow up just fine. Yeah, it pains me to admit it, but the kids are all right.