Quotes About Optimism

I'll be afraid only on a day that will never come. The day when I give up.

We do not hold the belief that this earth is a realm of misery where man is doomed to destruction. We do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and we do not live in chronic dread of disaster. We do not expect disaster until we have a specific reason to expect it - and when we encounter it, we are free to fight it. It is not happiness, but suffering that we consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life.

You Change Your Valley Into A Peak When You Find And Use The Good That Is Hidden In The Bad Time.

Avoid Believing Things Are Better Than They Really Are When You Are On A Peak, Or Worse Than They Really Are When You Are In A Valley. Make Reality Your Friend.

He wondered why he had always thought that a change would lead to something worse. Now he realized that change could lead to something better.

The Path Out Of The Valley Appears When You Choose To See Things Differently.

There are no limits to what you can believe!

God save us from gloomy saints!

What is optimism? Alas, it is the mania for pretending that all is right, when in fact everything is wrong. —Voltaire, Candide

These views were voiced by the school of 'optessimists', i.e. philosophers who derived optimism for the future from a pessimistic appraisal of the present. The 21st Voyage, The Star Diaries

If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently.

Der Pessimismus der Vernunft verpflichtet zum Optimismus des Willens!

Gibarian belonged to what may well have been the last generation of researchers who had the courage to refer back to the glory days of optimism and were not averse to their own kind of faith, which went beyond the boundaries laid

I still believe that the world is arranged in our favor, since we can nevertheless gain mastery over things that run counter to our senses.

Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect.

It was one thing for hope to spring eternal for the unlikely—it was quite another to wish for the utterly impossible.

calming ability to find good anywhere and a deep sense of peace.

Too much hope breaks you, she replied, unable to keep the ache out of her own heart. If you believe too much, the crash is too hard—

It's nice to have things to look forward to.

I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

Please believe that things are going good with me. Even if they're not they will be soon enough.

So, if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And I will believe the same about you.

As long as she had that light, there would always be a chance.

It's nice to have things to look forward to.