Quotes About Optimism

my old Aunt Tess. She was a mother to me if I needed one. 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." And that was more or less what we all believed in.

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

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

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

to her days and made every hour of punishing toil totally irrelevant. It was this blind belief, this absolute faith in herself and her future, that often put a lively spring into her step, brought an occasional smile to her normally solemn young face, and sustained her at all times.

naïve. The triumph of hope over experience.

It wasn't how far you fell, it was how high you bounced

Then she dives out the door - or window, it doesn't matter - to see what wonders the new day will bring, and since Lotus Cloud views the world with the delighted eyes of a child everything is equally marvelous.

Happiness is a choice

people with high maximization scores experienced less satisfaction with life, were less happy, were less optimistic, and were more depressed than people with low maximization scores.

We would be better off if we lowered our expectations about the results of decisions

We can mitigate regret by Adopting the standards of a satisficer rather than a maximizer. Reducing the number of options we consider before making a decision. Practicing gratitude for what is good in a decision rather than focusing on our disappointments with what is bad.

Whoever is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion

Even if things go all wrong they'll work out just fine.

Someday, if your life is long and your thinking machinery stays in gear, you'll live to remember the last good thing that ever happened to you. That's not pessimism talking, just logic.

hope is a good thing, and good things never die!

Whatever lay ahead, he was glad to be alive.

expect nothing but never lose hope.

It was, he thought, fine to be young and in love. Even in the graveyard which this world has become, it was fine.

It's a wholly illogical but nonetheless powerful belief that things will change for the better in a new place; that the urge to self-destruct will magically disappear.

as afirmações dos cínicos parecem sempre mais plausíveis do que as dos optimistas incorrigíveis.

I say, if you can't laugh you might as well laugh anyway.

We poor humans are wired up to always think the worst is gonna happen because it so rarely does.

Goddam life, I say, if you can't laugh you might as well laugh anyway. That's my goddam attitude, and I'll stick by it; this ain't a sad world unless you're sane