Quotes About Optimism

People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important.

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

There comes a moment when you realize that virtually anything is possible- that nothing is too good to be true.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

The world doesn't hate you as much as you think it does.

But I'm willing to take a chance on believing there has to be a way. All I need is someone to believe with me.

She will see & know for certain that everything is going to be just fine. But this day, this first day,... & when the wings of change have brushed against her life yet again, she just wants to be pissed off.

There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

It's going to be ok, you know that now, don't you? I know there will be something else, but I also know that it will be ok. It has to be ok.

Any thought that does not inspire hope is rooted in a lie.

On the emotional and mental levels, laughter not only diffuses negative thoughts and emotions, it also produces positive emotions like hope and elation and allows us to create new, more optimistic perspectives on our circumstances.

Taking in the good, whenever and wherever we find it, gives us new eyes for seeing and living.

My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn and reveres truth. It lives open eyed and wholeheartedly with the darkness that is woven ineluctably into the light of life and sometimes seems to overcome it. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory.

try to live in this place between the two, to try to build a life there. Because finding fault and feeling hopeless about improving our situation produces resignation, of which cynicism is a symptom, a sort of futile self-protection mechanism. But on the other hand, believing blindly that everything will work

Tried be cheerful, tried be upbeat, tried not to let my feelings show, not to blame him, not to mind when day after day, week after week, his nonchalance eroded my heart. Sometimes, being an optimist was quite the fucking effort.

I've found that if you expect the best of a person," Frank told him once, "you generally get it." "What happens when you don't?" Lucas asked. "Live and learn. Emphasis on learn.

Life is good, even without all the elements in place.

my phone rings. I sense my hard-won optimism is about to get a smackdown. The Angel of Death, also known as my mother, Lenore Tate, long-suffering widow and professional pessimist.

Well, no point in crying over spilled milk. Spilled wine, yes.

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Matthew, sometimes we just have to hope that things work out, because being absolutely sure of something . . . it doesn't happen a lot.

I love the thought of not knowing how things will turn out but the willingness to invest anyway.

If you stopped yourself every single time you were about to say, "I have to" and changed it to "I get to," it might change your entire experience.

My mom says the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but I'm hopeful that their tree was on a hill and I'm rolling farther away as write