Quotes About Optimism

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Yes, Ba said sadly, it is impossible. But it is not ridiculous.

It's a good world if you don't weaken.

Nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story ended here.

If I were writing a novel I would end it here: a novel, I used to think, has to end somewhere, but I'm beginning to believe my realism has been at fault all these years, for nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story ended here.

disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;

and sitting there, my fingers on the quiet instrument, with something to look forward to. I thought to myself: I remember. This is what hope feels like.

Failures like ours are often just failures of hope. Please – cannot you say you are sorry you did not have more hope?

If I had been told I would have laughed, as I laugh now on my better days.

I suppose it was only one more indication of a human being's capacity for self-deception, our baseless optimism that is so much more appalling than our despair.

If I were writing a novel I would end it here: a novel, I used to think, has to end somewhere, but I'm beginning to believe my realism has been at fault all these years, for nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story ended here.

Faith in Life.

Even with all the mayonnaise in the world, you can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit.

Don't apologize for believing the world is in better shape than it is," the commissioner told him. "Just fight to make it true.

24For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? 25But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

Hope can live in a vacuum.

Next time, he thinks. The two best words in the English language.

I'm going to get back to that place where crumble is a topping and not a way of life. "You've

After grabbing a sandwich to eat on the way, Lindsay listened to the overly cheerful guidance from her GPS as she drove from Bellingham to Everett, a somewhat sad mill city north of Seattle that seemed always on a futile hunt for a lasting jolt of optimism.

somewhat sad mill city north of Seattle that seemed always on a futile hunt for a lasting jolt of optimism.

handful. You can't expect

I intend to live forever. So far, so good. —STEVEN WRIGHT

Sir, 'pessimist' is a term invented by optimists to describe realists.

Like most things, and most people, it's not as bad as it looks from the outside.