Quotes About Optimism

Your University professors are bound to preach optimism; and it is an easy and agreeable task to upset their theories.

There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy….So long as we persist in this inborn error, and indeed even become confirmed in it through optimistic dogmas, the world seems to us full of contradictions.

is it at all possible for you to prevent your washed-up cynicism from completely coloring everything?

What Larry McCaslin saw in Rahel's eyes was not despair at all, but a sort of enforced optimism. And a hollow where Estha's words' had been. He couldn't be expected to understand that. That the emptiness in one twin was only a version of the quietness in the other. That the two things fitted together. Like stacked spoons. Like familiar lovers' bodies.

A new world is not only possible

There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . .

You may be right after all, I said to him in the kitchen. You may be right, but you'll never win. I think the opposite, he smiled, stirring the pot from which a wonderful aroma of rogan josh arose. We may turn out to be wrong, but we have already won.

Life is long, my young friend. Do not make it more difficult than it already has to be.

Nonetheless, what I saw was: better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

I had little hope of succeeding.

operation I believe that with enough will and effort I can beat the odds.

Genom att försöka göra det omöjliga når man högsta graden av det möjliga.

If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior. You are still able to actively seek solutions to your problems. You are willing to go to great lengths to provide what you believe will be soothing to yourself. This strikes me as optimistic.

Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being in control is taking responsibility for how you feel. This means not just admitting to uncomfortable feelings but then examining your circumstances to see what can be done to change these feelings at the source.

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.

Instead of becoming depressed that I was in the locked ward of a mental hospital, I pretended I was playing a role in a movie, possibly on my way to an Emmy.

No matter how awful something is, you can always sell tickets.

And possibility was my fuel. It was the One Thing that prevented me from slitting my wrists on any given horrid day. The fact that at any moment, everything could change.

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

And man will go on. Man, not men.