Quotes About Optimism

just kept hoping that if I believed something hard enough, it might actually come true.

a cynic is one who has given up but not yet shut up. Commit

Promise yourself," she said that last time we met, "promise that you'll have a great life, no matter what happens.

Dream big and they just might come true, keep trying and never give up!

I envied Lesley her unshakable optimism. She always looked on the bright side of things. If they Had a bright side.

Míralo por el lado positivo. Encuentro que eres muy valiente. Y... ¡te quiero! — ¿Puedes decirlo otra vez, por favor? ¿Y luego besarme para que me olvide de todo lo demás? — Puedo intentarlo.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

Be generous, be spirited, and you'll lead a happy life.

if you believe you can, or believe you can't - either way you're right

Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better

Didn't it make sense that after something horrible happens, something better should follow?

When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the most glorious flowers, which will bear the sweetest fruit. A good gardener plants them all, tends and nurtures them, and wishes them well. Optimism is the best fertilizer.

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.

Embrace pronoia which is the opposite of paranoia. Choose to believe that the entire universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success.

Protopia is a state of becoming, rather than a destination. It is a process. In the protopian mode, things are better today than they were yesterday, although only a little better. It is incremental improvement or mild progress.

To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.

Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.

I guess I just mean that sometimes your mom says that things will be better for you in the future. And I think they will, Frankie. I think you're really smart and I think you'll do fine. But I also think it's not so bad if you never quite feel right in this world. It's still worth hanging around. You just have to look harder to find the things you love." "Okay," I said. I kind of wanted to hug him.

Let's just keep going, super cool," I said. "Nothing to see here.

You are going to have such an amazing life, Frankie," he told me. "If this is how it starts? It's almost breathtaking how good your life will be.

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.