Quotes About Optimism

So many things that happen to you are so dreadful, it's important to have a sense of humour.

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.

Smile, it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.

Things might not be great, but things would be okay.

The X had released its first wave of chemical optimism, I could feel it float up inside me like a big test balloon and splatter on the roof of my mouth, spraying good cheer. I could almost taste it, like a fizzy pink jelly.

I can feel a better version of me somewhere

He had the patience and optimism of someone who thought Jesus was watching.

If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a very Merry Christmas , I heard my aunt Diane boom in my head. Those words had been the bane of my childhood, a constant reminder that nothing turned out right, not just for me but for anyone, and that's why someone had invented a saying like that. So we'd all know that we'd never have what we needed.

If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a very Merry Christmas, I heard my aunt Diane boom in my head. Those words had been the bane of my childhood, a constant reminder that nothing turned out right, not just for me but for anyone, and that's why someone had invented a saying like that. So we'd all know that we'd never have what we needed.

the urgent hopefulness of a seriously underdog politician with a lot of true believers refusing to give up.

Things may not be great, but things will be okay.

The one thing I suspected about Jim Jeffreys was that he must be Christian, churchy - he had the patience and optimism of someone who thought Jesus was watching.

Until we're pushing up daisies, it might be good to remind ourselves daily that everything's coming up roses — for me and for you.

Maturity understands that there's darkness in the world but that there's no need to dwell in it: we can lighten up and offer illumination to others.

Part of winning is a downdeep certainty that, no matter how bad things look, a road to victory will open.

Mantenerse en estado optimista las veinticuatro horas del día es un hecho heroico que nadie ensalza y a mí me llena de orgullo de tarde en tarde.

La vida es una caca de vaca que hay que convertir en un pastel de manzana.

Laughter is a rescue. p.204

Was I thinking that everything would turn out all right in the long run? That it was the fair thing to happen, that it was due me? That things could go wrong only to a point? Some atheist with such beliefs!

Our fans are great; our team is nifty! We're going to get blown out by fifty!

Things are finally starting to go our way

I'm not retiring," I tell her. "Sign me up for next year.

He could already hear the "You haven't even given it a chance yet" lecture, one of his mother's favorites. Then his father would deliver the crowning touch with "Life is what you make it." It was a devastating combination