Quotes About Optimism

Good happens, every morning that the sun rises, every night that the moon shines, every moment that the earth turns. And if you're brave enough to look in the elephant's eye, you see, finally, that behind the sadness there is joy.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Tomorrow is always a better day to be an idiot.

The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.

Dünyay? iÅŸler tutan ÅŸey, umut, yaln?zca umuttu…

By the way — I don't want you to think that in my own mind I have "given up the case", as we doctors so charmingly put it. On the contrary, it's just at this point that I refuse to give in, even if things continue as they are for another year, another five years.

Het is goedkoop als wij, die het woord 'veiligheid' allang als een schim uit ons vocabulaire hebben weggestreept, de optimistische waanvoorstelling van die door idealisme verblinde generatie nu belachelijk maken, het geloof dat de technische vooruitgang van de mensheid beslist een even snelle morele ontwikkeling ten gevolge moet hebben.

I had recognized the foe I was to fight – false heroism that prefers to send others to suffering and death, the cheap optimism of the conscienceless prophets, both political and military who, boldly promising victory, prolong the war, and behind them the hired chorus, the "word makers of war" as Werfel has pilloried them in his beautiful poem.

I revelled in my own blissful lightness of heart and the happiness of others, for when one is happy oneself, one can only picture the rest of the world as happy.

Pero ¡Quién sabe!: Lo que aún no es, bien podría llegar a ser algún día

Only the man who could look into the future without worry could thoroughly enjoy the present.

Nur wer sorglos in die Zukunft blicken konnte, genoß mit gutem Gefühl die Gegenwart.

She glanced upwards for a second at the soft blue vault of the midsummer night sky. Not a cloud misted its solemn depths. Tomorrow would be a beautiful day.

I am quite sure I shall find it very amusing and not at all too much for me.

How can you eat that sawdust, Father?' she inquired, beginning on eggs and bacon and speaking cheerfully because it was a fine morning and only ten minutes past nine; and somehow, at the beginning of every new day, there was always a chance that this one might be different from all the rest. Something might happen; and then everything would be jollier all round.

things don't always turn out the way you want, but things generally turn out for the best.

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There's no reason for any of us to face reality if we don't like it.

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

Don't Worry Be Happy

Be positive. Be true. Be kind.

In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.

I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.