Quotes About Optimism

Perhaps happiness is always to be found in the journey uphill, and not in the fleeting sense of satisfaction awaiting at the next peak. Much of happiness is hope, no

Much of happiness is hope,

The more you open yourself up to the possibility that good things will happen the higher probability is that good things will in fact happen.

Attend to the day, but aim at the highest good. Now, your trajectory is heavenward. That makes you hopeful. Even a man on a sinking ship can be happy when he clambers aboard a lifeboat! And who knows where he might go, in the future. To journey happily may well be better than to arrive successfully….

People are very tough. People can survive through much pain and loss. But to persevere they must see the good in Being. If they lose that, they are truly lost.

And I have learned through painful experience that nothing is going so badly that it can't be made worse.

It is easy for optimism to be undermined and demolished, however, if it is naive, and for cynicism to arise in its place. But the act of peering into the darkness as deeply as possible reveals a light that appears unquenchable, and that is a profound surprise, as well as a great relief.

Quizá la felicidad se encuentra en el viaje de subida y no en el efímero sentimiento de satisfacción que aguarda en la próxima cumbre. Una gran parte de la felicidad está compuesta de esperanza, por muy profundo que fuera el submundo en el que dicha esperanza se f

Even a man on a sinking ship can be happy when he clambers aboard a lifeboat!

We live within a framework that defines the present as eternally lacking and the future as eternally better. If we did not see things this way, we would not act

It is for such reasons that a whole generation of social psychologists recommended "positive illusions" as the only reliable route to mental health.69 Their credo? Let a lie be your umbrella. A more dismal, wretched, pessimistic philosophy can hardly be imagined: things are so terrible that only delusion can save you.

The young man had come to realize that every place he might find himself in had more potential than he might first see (particularly when his vision was impaired by the resentment and cynicism he felt from being near the bottom).

Your resolution trumps your nihilism and despair.

the notion that it was good, well even if you don't believe that because maybe it's not as good as it could be. I would say it's incumbent on you as someone who participates in the process of furthering creation to act as if it could be good at least and to further that with all of your efforts. Partly because what the hell else do you have to do that could possible be better than that, that could possible justify your existence more than that?

basic rule of mathematical life: if the universe hands you a hard problem, try to solve an easier one instead, and hope the simple version is close enough to the original problem that the universe doesn't object.

But just because you get distracted by the silver lining for a little while, that doesn't mean there's not still a huge dark cloud behind it.

Dice un refrán japonés que «es mejor viajar lleno de esperanzas que llegar». La frase tiene la virtud de ayudarnos a entender la importancia de ponerle ilusión al camino.

Esperanza, confianza, valentía»

Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun has spots (stains). The ungrateful only talk about the spots (stains). The grateful talk about the light.

Öyle sevindim ki günüme güneÅŸ doÄŸdu. Özlemimin dizginlerini kavrayan ileri at?ld?.

Sólo cabe progresar cuando se piensa en grande, sólo es posible avanzar cuando se mira lejos.

A mí no me matan penas mientras tenga el cuero sano, venga el sol en el verano y la escarcha en el invierno: si este mundo es un infierno, ¿por qué afligirse el cristiano?

Positivity, that's one of the things I try to spread throughout my company and really anyone I come in contact with. Because as you know, life's too short. You got to keep it positive and keep it fun.

He who does not hope to win has already lost.