Quotes About Optimism

I told Ersken, Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today, he said, as good humored as always. Today we're doing to jump.

Da says I make a whole loaf from pigeon crumbs.

It was almost warm for the first day of New Year; she was dressed comfortably; she had a good horse and Faithful with her and Coram at her side. Roger's death was bad, she thought, but life could be much, much worse. Perhaps I'll live and be happy after, all.

And adults say young people these days don't know anything. If only those adults knew that you, Jorality Bancanor, knew everything. Why they'd have hope for the future.

So there is light but only if you can see past the pain

There's always hope, Charlotte, that's the point of the story.

That was the advantage of a young mind--believing was easier.

The incomparable great power we have as believers is tied up in hope. Lose the hope and lose the power.

Behavioral trainers never talk about vices and depravity. Behaviorists are some of the most optimistic' teachers and trainers there are, because if a person or an animal isn't learning, a behaviorist is trained to examine what he is doing wrong, not what the person or animal is doing wrong. This means that behavioral teachers and trainers don't blame the student.

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't.

But all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.

It behoved that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.

And all shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of things shall be exceeding well.

AND thus our good Lord answered to all the questions and doubts that I might make, saying full comfortably: I may make all thing well, I can make all thing well, I will make all thing well, and I shall make all thing well; and thou shalt see thyself that all manner of thing shall be well.

All shall be well.

I believe that if you've been through hell and you come out the other side, you appreciate the little things more.

You can't live the rest of your days feeling bitter and spiteful," David continued. "It'll eat you up inside and keep you from enjoying the good things that will come your way later on. And there will be good things, I promise you that.

I've learned that even when life drags you down into the deepest pit of despair, that's the most important time to keep believing, because you never know when you're going to sling-shot upwards, straight out of there.

I may not have known what my future held, or how in the world I was going to navigate through it, but I did know one thing: I needed to return to the place where I had once been happy, where I had been a hopeful, optimistic person before the ground gave way under my feet.

What is hope, exactly? Is it the longing for something, such as the fulfilment of a dream? Or is it a sense of optimism within you, a sense of trust, an unwavering belief that everything is going to be okay?

I became conscious of the fact that I would never experience that blissful optimism again. I would not be courageous enough to have another child. I wasn't even sure I would ever be brave enough to love someone

Perhaps there was hope for happiness as well, some day in the future. Perhaps I wouldn't always feel so disappointed.