Quotes About Optimism

The mantra is to be positive, to be happy. This mania for optimism—for happiness—leads to fantasy being mistaken for reality. Reality is dismissed when it is unpleasant.

When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: This is for my benefit.

As you progress along your path , instead of being worried or uncertain about your future , you will look forward to it with anticipation.

A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains us daily in everything we think and do. It gives us optimism and hope.

Do not allow your brain to infect your mind with visions of ill health, problems, unhappiness, and conflict. You are in charge. Do not succumb to loading your brain with garbage.

as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else. -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

Hope is what you have when all other things have failed you," he said. "Where there is hope, you make room for healing, for all things that are possible—and some that are not.

We could still have it.

Hope is what you have when all other things have failed. Where there is hope, you make room for healing, for all things that are possible-and some that are not.

Hope is what you have when all other things have failed you. Where there is hope, you can make room for healing, for all things that are possible- and some that are not. (Anduin Wrynn)

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She laughed easily, that was one of the things he remembered most. Her laughter. The sound of it. The way she turned everything bad into something good.

My grandmother used to say, Don't frown, Ania, laughter is so much better for the world. Give your family and friends that gift always.

Accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope—Martin Luther King Jr.

You can forgive a lot when a dim day has a happy ending.

As Bertie Wooster once phrased it, they experienced some difficulty in detecting the bluebird.

Corruptio optimi pessima: no greater cruelty will be devised than by those who are sure, or are assured, that they are doing good.

Knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light

That's the scary thing about hope, she said. If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

Hope is merely another face of desire.

One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.