Quotes About Optimism

There would be better years. It would take a long time to swim toward them. He wasn't sure, at first, that he had the energy. The breakthrough was realizing that there would be days when he did and days when he didn't, days to avoid the water at all costs and days to dive in, bold.

So what's the problem?' 'No problem. There's no problem. Don't ever say what's the problem, nthat's the negative way of looking at things, you know like is the bottle half empty or half full, know what I mean, every problem is also an opportunity, the question here is what opportunity does this present us with?' 'It seems to me', said Ernest stubbornly, 'that this opportunity presents us with a problem. Is there a director that Virginia would like?

This was a better place. Not just this new town, but this new world. So much brighter and cleaner than the old world of rot and ruin, fire and ash.

Besides, it wasn't our generation who was defeated when the dead rose. I still believe there's a future, and I intend to be there to see it.

Hope cannot be killed. Not while there is someone who will fight for it. And there always will be; always must be, someone who fights for hope.

Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.

Your advantage in forgetting is that you'll forget to write yourself off as a lost cause.

There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when wrong, they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

Winston Churchill's great remark that "success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

One eye was black and closed. I allowed myself a smile. Despite my predicament, there were still a few things left in life to enjoy.

This was what she liked — a clear, straightforward objective, a simple danger to be faced down. But more than that, she had a sense that things were going her way. She had a bulging sack of banknotes, a head start on her enemies, a gun in hand, and the wilderness up ahead. Life was good again, and the sun was shining too.

If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations

If you're eating an ice cream cone, it's just very hard to believe that things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.

And ice-cream cones,' she says. 'What is it with you and ice-cream cones?' He licks around the edge of his cone as he considers the question. 'I guess no one ever eats an ice-cream cone at a funeral, or a fire. The Red Cross doesn't drop ice-cream cones into third-world countries. If you're eating an ice-cream cone, it's just very hard to believe that things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.

THERE IS NOTHING more pathetically optimistic than the morning erection. I am depressed, unemployed, unloved, basement-dwelling, and bereaved, but there it is, every morning like clockwork, rising up to greet the day, poking out of my fly cocksure and conspicuously useless. And every morning, I face the same choice: masturbate or urinate. It's the one time of the day where I feel like I have options.

He has always had a dangerous tendency to embrace blind optimism in the face of hard facts.

N]o one ever eats an ice-cream cone at a funeral, or a fire. The Red Cross doesn't drop ice-cream cones into third-world countries. If you're eating an ice-cream cone, it's just very hard to believe things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.

There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.

Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.

Il mio regno non è di questo mondo» significa che l'armonia non è di questo mondo; l'affetto troppo armonioso, l'accordo troppo stabile, la dolcezza troppo sistematica, l'ottimismo troppo conciliante sono parzialmente frutto della menzogna.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

No  te  apropies de cosas negativas, sustitúyelas, suplántalas, con  cosas  positivas y constructivas.