Quotes About Optimism

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Because love doesn't stop just because you run. Love keeps reaching out. Keeps believing, even when it feels impossible.

The goal was always to keep ahead of the pain.

Stop looking at what you can't do and look ahead, to your safe landing. Visualize it.

It's funny how just having an unobstructed view of the possible future can make you think you're capable of achieving anything.

Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.

Dream of sweet tomorrows.

What's there to remember if not the good things?

still have my colors. Surely a new kind of happiness is still within reach.

An amaryllis is always waiting to delight and surprise you, even when your world seems cold and dark.

Perhaps it's true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

Golden ages have no shade of grey.

Okay, fuck the sundial. We'll just go straight and eventually we'll get there. What I mean is that we'll get somewhere. Out of here. I mean, logically, we have to get out as long as we walk straight. I've done this millions of times. Whenever everything's killing me, I just say to myself, screw it, and go straight ahead.

One of the many optimistic convictions punctured by the riots was the belief that books were good and true - that on the shelves of libraries, you could find all the answers to all the questions. Life now seemed juddering and inexplicable, beyond the reach of what we could ever know or understand.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

You are the composer and conductor and thus decide what key of life to live. I choose major over minor whenever I can.

Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life..."It's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground.

I'm sure of one thing," she said earnestly. "It hurts to—to let go of anything beautiful. But something will come to take its place, something different, of course, but better. The future's always better than we can possibly think it will be . . . We ought to live confidently. Because whatever's ahead, it's going to be better than we've had." Rose Wilder Lane Diverging Roads

God knows without hope, very few could survive.

My glass is not only half-full, it holds five-hundred-dollar-a-bottle Dom Perignon champagne.

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic.

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

Aim higher in case you fall short.

You could do a lot worse.