Quotes About Optimism

there is light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness.

Casi siempre lo mejor de la vida consistía en no hacer nada en absoluto, en pasar el rato reflexionando, rumiando sobre ello. Quiero decir que pongamos que uno comprende que todo es absurdo, entones no puede ser tan absurdo porque uno es consciente de que es absurdo y la conciencia de ellos es lo que le otorga sentido. ¿Me entienden? Es un pesimismo optimista.

Well," I said to Sara, "it ain't been a bad year. Nobody murdered me." "And you're still able to drink every night and get up at noon every day." "If I can just hold out another year.

CzÄ™sto najlepsze chwile w ?yciu to te, kiedy nic nie robisz, tylko zastanawiasz siÄ™ nad swoim istnieniem, kontemplujesz ró?ne sprawy. I tak kiedy na przykÅ'ad mówisz, ?e wszystko nie ma sensu, to nie mo?e do koÅ"ca nie mie? sensu, bo przecie? jesteÅ› Å›wiadom, ?e nie ma sensu, a twoja Å›wiadomo?? braku sensu nadaje temu jakiÅ› sens. Rozumiecie, o co mi chodzi? Optymistyczny pesymizm.

Often the best parts of life were when you weren't doing anything at all, just mulling it over, chewing on it. I mean, say that you figure out that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean? An optimistic pessimism.

Energy from the sun today is responsible for about 1 percent of India's electricity; even in Gujarat, it amounts to just 5 percent. Optimistic scenarios show its share rising to 10 percent by 2022.

Yet Catchings would in just ten years very nearly destroy the firm, proving once again that articulate optimists encouraged by early successes and armed with financial leverage can become hugely destructive.

Head full of sorrows, heart full of dreams. How to maintain the latter as life progresses? How not to let the first cancel the second?

I lived most of my life with a Charlie Brown or Murphy's Law attitude that said, "It's normal for things to go wrong, so if anything goes right, it must be a mistake.

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

It was Sir Winston Churchill, in the midst of Nazi bombings, who said to the people of London, This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.' He was the one who offered the best definition of success I've ever read: Success is moving from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City during the 1930s, used to say, I don't fail often. But when I do, it's a beaut!

What's God saying to you now? All things are possible to him who worries? No. All things are possible to him who attempts to work it out? No. All things are possible to him who believes. --Man to Man: Chuck Swindoll Selects His Most Significant Writings for Men

The glass isn't half-empty or half-full. What you're looking at is half a pint of depreciable assets sitting in a pint of capital infrastructure that can be amortized over two accounting periods. ... Is there an engineering one? ... Yes! It's quite simple: That's half a pint, all that's wrong is the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Who knows? It's a long shot, but it just might work.

Even the most complex financial systems can thrive or fail depending on whether people believe they will thrive or fail.

The great thing about rejection is that it doesn't matter how many times you get rejected. All that needs to happen is if for one person to tell you 'yes' and then everybody else can go f*** themselves.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! —ANNE

If we have any role at all, I think it's the role of optimism, not blind or stupid optimism, but the kind which is meaningful, one that is rather close to that notion of the world which is not perfect, but which can be improved. In other words, we don't just sit and hope that things will work out; we have a role to play to make that come about.

Don't disparage the day that still has an hour of light in its hand.

Nothing is falling apart

the words of encouragement which the bedbug was said to have spoken to her children when hot water was poured on them all. She told them not to lose heart because whatever was hot must in the end turn cold.

A deadline is, simply put, optimism in its most kick-ass form. It's a potent force that, when wielded with respect, will level any obstacle in its path. This is especially true when it comes to creative pursuits.

optimism. Lean, fit, happy, optimistic, energetic, brimming with vim and vigor: these