Quotes About Optimism

Life is excellent or life blows, depending on how you look at it.

There you go: Someone who puts «positive thinking» and «shit» in the same concept can inspire some serious eye-rolling if you're the type who works at keeping your thought-life healthy.

What a lot of fun you could have... if you made unimportant things seem important and went about them with enthusiasm!

when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.

We also know that there is a mindset that helps people cope well with setbacks, points them to good strategies, and leads them to act in their best interest.

They know how to take tests and get A's but they don't know how to do this—yet. They forget the yet.

They were self-effacing people who constantly asked questions and had the ability to confront the most brutal answers—that is, to look failures in the face, even their own, while maintaining faith that they would succeed in the end.

Not only weren't they discouraged by failure, they didn't even think they were failing. They thought they were learning

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, And show the world all the love in your heart, then people gonna treat you better. You're gonna find, yes, you will, That you're beautiful as you feel.

Blue skies can be misleading.

She was never overcome by drabness or squalor. She never glamorized anything; yet she saw the loveliness in everything.

There comes a point when the universe needs to get on your side or go fuck itself and the universe gets in line.

It's amazing how good 50 and sunny feels after you've been bleeding in 12 with a wind chill of go fuck yourself.

They're in their own world, where good things happen, a quarter mile and a million light years away.

It's a pathetic thing, hope, hard to kill.

It's like Michael Cunningham says in The Hours: Happiness is believing that you're gonna be happy. It's hope.

You're a sweetheart. You see the best in people. You complement me.

It's amazing how good fifty and sunny feels after you've been bleeding in twelve with a wind chill of go fuck yourself.

That was my favorite line: I'll drink less when things get better.

Faith is a kind of imagination. It's imagining a world we can't see, but hope is there.

Never. Ever. Give. Up. No doesn't always mean no. Sometimes it's just takes a little work to find the yes.

I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.

My mom was always the support. I can always go out to her and she'll always find the positive in things.