Quotes About Optimism

positive can't survive in a negative atmosphere

I vowed to find something to laugh about every day for the rest of my life.

We're not going to borrow trouble until we know there's trouble to be had

Let go of the past. Live today and look forward to the future," Bonnie

Hope is the magic that heals hearts and souls

So what if she had to wear another woman's underpants. She'd live and the sun wouldn't stop coming up in the morning.

Dad, that's wonderful!" Nancy exclaimed. "I hope we hear something soon." Her father chuckled. "When you were a little girl, Nancy, you were always eager to have things happen. I used to say to you, 'Hold your horses!' Now I'm saying it again. Don't get your hopes up too high." Nancy laughed. "Spoken like a lawyer," she teased, and then said good-by.

even when you felt that your own life had tumbled irrevocably out of control. You did what you had to do, somehow. You kept racing ahead and hoped for the best.

And try to remember how to be an idealist.

Where are they going? Alpha Centauri. That's impossible. Very likely. But that's where they're going. Why? It's less impossible than here.

about them always.

The sadness in your heart is a yesterday you can no longer see, so put it behind you and walk always forward. Swift Antelope to Amy

Anyway, as they say, where there's life, there's hope. So let us eat.

Why look to far ahead, when there was nothing to see but dark clouds?

Look, I whisper to Cat, Shooting star! That's good luck. She rolls her eyes. It's a plane, you idiot, she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.

The days of the future stand in fornt of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles The days that are past are left behind

Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there...

Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn't make you a weak person. It's hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how or why they were taken from you, but a reason for you to live. Because it's a maybe. A 'maybe someday things won't always be this shit.' And that 'maybe' immediately makes the shittiness better.

We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.

For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.

As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.

Life is hard, so what?

Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason of how or why they were taken away from you, but a reason to live. Because it's a maybe. A 'maybe someday things won't always be this shit. And that 'maybe' immediately makes the shittiness better.

We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.