Quotes About Optimism

Morning always comes.

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.

One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.

At the time, I thought my life couldn't get any worse. Here's some advice: Don't ever think that.

I got up every day thinking the sun was out there shining, and it could just as well shine on me as any other human person.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what to hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

the unbearable persistence of hope

Move on. Walk forward into the light.

At lunch break [from cheesemaking] I checked out the wildly colorful powder room, where a quote from Alice in Wonderland was painted on the wall: There's no use in trying,' Alice said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

He could construct defeat from any available material and live inside it, but for once Dellarobia didn't go there with him. She was going ahead.

life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don't rule it out.

What Aunt Tess loved to say was: "Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up your pace.

always tried to be positive with her, although I'd learned

I don't know how you go on, but I really hope you'll keep doing it. That you won't give up esperanza. I thought of that last night. Esperanza is all you get, no second chances. What you have to do is try and think of reasons to stick it out.

the useful illusion that everything would be fine. It amazed her now to watch people walking through life with their ludicrous trust.

It's also interesting how it's hard to be depressed around a three-year-old, if you're paying attention. After a while, whatever you're mooning about begins to seem like some elaborate adult invention.

Hope it an unbearably precious thing, worth its weight in feathers. If that's too much to think about, best to tuck it in a pocket anyway, and make it a habit.

After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. —WALLACE STEVENS, "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.

It hit me pretty hard, how there's no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning.

admired their own steadfast lives. Right up to the day when hope in all its versions went out of stock

I'm saying when God slams a door on you it's probably a shitstorm. You're going to end up in rubble. But it's okay because without all that crap overhead, you're standing in the daylight.

Good things don't get lost.

start trusting the ride at some point, because life was not a total & complete dumpster fire, which she was wrong about.