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Quotes About Optimism

Jill meant well, but her life was a string of self-created emergencies, which she then cheerfully overcame.
~ Ilona Andrews
Hope sparked inside me. It was tiny, but it was so much better than nothing.
~ Ilona Andrews
It was as if part of his life was so bleak and dark that he felt the need to live the rest of it to its fullest, squeezing every bit of fun and happiness out of it.
~ Ilona Andrews
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
~ Immanuel Kant
El mundo de ningún modo se hundirá porque haya menos hombres malos.
~ Immanuel Kant
The world will by no means perish by a diminution in the number of evil men.
~ Immanuel Kant
And don't let the world bring you down, Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold, Remember why you came and while you're alive, Experience the warmth before you grow old...
~ Incubus
Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there with open arms and open eyes.
~ Incubus
Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way.
~ Ingvar Kamprad
Ya no creo en las catástrofes, puesto que la última ha fracasado. Ya no creo en la desgracia, ni en la muerte. La humanidad entera se encuentra en el estado mental del niño que le ha perdido el miedo al coco.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
I've learned never to discount possibilities because of the odds—because all things are possible with God.
~ Irene Hannon
With the gift of faith, we move on.
~ Irvine Welsh
Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know? Ah git good vibes aboot this interview the day though man, ken?
~ Irvine Welsh
No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.
~ Isaac Asimov
if we look forward to a future in which mankind behaves rationally and avoids self-destruction, we can visualize a world that will be more complicated than the one we know today, but a world that will run better and, most of all, a world in which the individual will count for more, not less.
~ Isaac Asimov
To mankind, and the hope that the war against folly may someday be won after all.
~ Isaac Asimov
If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
~ Isaac Asimov
On Earth, we have a continuous influx of young people who are willing to change because they haven't had time to grow hard set in their ways. I suppose there's some optimum. A life long enough for real accomplishment and short enough to make way for youth at a rate that's not too slow.
~ Isaac Asimov
And one day he said, I'm going to see Hallam again. Bronowski's eyebrows lifted. What for? To have him turn me down. Yes, that's about your speed, Pete. You're unhappy if your troubles die down a bit.
~ Isaac Asimov
We can't give up just because the Universe does.
~ Isaac Asimov
Ah, the future good!" Leebig's eyes glowed with passion and he seemed to grow less conscious of his listener and correspondingly more talkative. "A simple concept, you think. How many human beings are willing to accept a trifling inconvenience for the sake of a large future good?
~ Isaac Asimov
Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.
~ Isabel Allende
Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia lógica para no arruinar el presente, y optimismo desafiante para encarar el futuro.
~ Isabel Allende
Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
~ Isabel Allende