Quotes About Optimism

In one story, he describes a man who is blind in one eye, myopic in the other, too poor to buy eyeglasses, who wears only the frames, with no lenses. When asked why he replies: "It's better than nothing." As

No one misses out on the hardness of life. Everyone just tries to find what happiness and beauty they can. p343

Amazingly, she didn't seem to be holding on to anger or frustration about the past fifteen years. Instead, she had chosen to appreciate all they'd found and had to look forward to in the future.

with a smile. Then she pushed one

Looking for the good in people is never stupid.

I think both optimism and pessimism are very boring outlooks. I like to know what's going on, and I like to tell myself that I can handle the worst, should my observations prove to be negative or unfavorable.

Here is a bit of man's wisdom for you – when you think things can't get worse, they usually do.

I've already done the best I could with yesterday.

To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will--we all do. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win.

But morning always comes, no matter what sort of night you've had; this is an underappreciated fact.

Maybe the light's at the other end of the tunnel.

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

Keep your head up. Keep your heart strong

The collective effort of repression was tremendous, made the alcohol indispensable. An intense but contentless optimism about the future was the only protection against the recent past, in which all the regimes of value had collapsed, irradiated or gassed.

As his own end approached, Elliott reflected on a life that had been "undistinguished, albeit mildly notorious," and tremendous fun. He had known indignity, misfortune, and intimate betrayal, but his fund of natural optimism never ran out. "I feel I have been extraordinarily lucky," he wrote. "I look back on my career with some wonderment

A tolerable hell is better than an impossible heaven.

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

Choisir la mort, c'est insulter l'espoir ; or, même si on nage dans le désespoir, l'espoir demeure toujours.

I avoided false optimism, but I did not want to appear defeatist, either.

Don, far from an optimist himself, thought that Feldstein's outlook was too dark.

the hawks and doves alike exuded pessimism.

Still, over time, optimism about resolving Europe's problems faded.

We don't live in a perfect world, but we do live in the best world that has ever existed.