Quotes About Optimism

He'd gone through the first two decades of his life taking it for granted that everything would always be okay, that he could only fall so far before someone would catch him and set him back on his feet.

Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.

In the world according to the positivist, the inspiring thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're sunny side up. In the world according to the existentialist, the hopeless thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're scrambled.

The rougher the world gets around me, the sweeter I seem to myself.

Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.-

Life is hard - if you think it's hard.

Hope springs eternal and all that, yet isn't it a fact that when we give up and quit hoping; genuinely, sincerely quit hoping, things usually change for the better? Zen masters say that when we become convinced that the human situation is hopeless, we approach serenity, the ideal state of mind.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Spring has a way of erasing doubt.

are the Cheerios smiling bravely, insisting that the show must go on?

Defeatism means turning a disaster into a moral victory.

BAKUNIN:    Left to themselves, people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

you can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

Take that, nattering nabobs of negativity!

in desperate need of an infusion of a sense of the possible.

the flirt whom folks called Life, lead them on. Making them think the next sunrise would be worth it.

When he was drifting, thinking only about the next meal and night's sleep, when everything was packed tight in his chest, he had no sense of failure, of things not working out. Anything that worked at all worked out.

Sometimes not knowing enough can allow you to think you can achieve anything.

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

We have to have HOPE, which is Confident Expectation!

Bramo assai, poco spero (Hope for much, expect little)

Living for the future is more important than trying to avenge the past.

You're going to be all right. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this. Doesn't it? I'm sure you'll overcome this. You'll walk again… soon.' – Guts

You're going to be alright. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this, doesn't it? I'm sure you'll overcome this. You'll walk again...soon.