Quotes About Optimism

What begins very badly can only get better.

You're going to live. That's not to say you're going to be happy for a while, but it beats the alternative.

You can't think about how much you have left to do because that's just one thought, one sad thought, that'll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you've got to think about how much you've already done.

Thomas Hardy's words in his poem "In Tenebris II": "If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.

doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty... drink it and get on with your life.

Talk about turning lemons into lemonade!

How we perceive a situation and how we react to it is the basis of our stress. If you focus on the negative in any situation, you can expect high stress levels. However, if you try and see the good in the situation, your stress levels will greatly diminish.

Even if we had to go back, I decided it was worth it to ride that bus all the way out here. It was worth it just for Natalie to see the windmills. Even if she never saw anything like this again. Maybe at least she could hang on to the idea that there's something better out there, somewhere.

when you're thinking bad thoughts about yourself, to remember that they might turn out to be wrong.

But I bet more than half the people in the world right now are worrying about something that really is going to be okay.

Once you get that sense that there's no real security, that anything at all can happen to you, then every minute you're okay is a joy. Part of the joy is feeling like you can make your way in a world that isn't always easy.

I looked down the endless stretch of highway and decided not to borrow trouble from too far down the road.

It's just that this might be the last train to happy. And you want to make sure to get on it." Felipe

Lecture kids on all the terrible things that could happen. Like they think it's smart to imagine all the worst possible things that could happen and then make sure you imagine them right along with them. And I don't get that at all, because good things could happen, too. So

And I knew that my only way through this mass of simultaneous future outcomes was to hold tight to the idea that it was possible to get to OK from where we were now. Not assured. Just possible.

anybody can think the world is beautiful when it's all going their way. That's just like untested faith.

Oh. Yeah. That's good. That's

I mean . . . you just make the best of happy while you've got it, right?

Why not make it into something better?" "Because it's enough.

The first fifteen miles are the hardest, because I think I can't walk this far.

America is not perfect, but it's much better than anywhere else in the world.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.

Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.