Quotes About Optimism

The world had gotten gritty enough. The only thing left to do in all that dirt was to shine.

Opium ain't got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow

why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Opium ain't got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today.

Calpurnia squinted through her goggles and thought to herself, That is a Key. Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

I really don't know what you're talking about," said the Speaker of the United State House of Representatives. "We're doing great. Turn on any news channel, they'll tell you. Taxes are low, business is booming, crime is down, the Patriots win the Super Bowl every year, and we're finally getting our country back. I'll admit, it used to be a real nightmare around here.

No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.

You just get on with it and take each day as it comes. I always made sure I found one good thing in each day. It didn't matter how small it was as long as it was good and made me happy.

As long as a man has two hands and a strong back, he can make things happen. It's no good being fearful. Worry won't change the future a whit, and it misses the joy of this glad day.

He kneels upon the solid rock and is looking up—not down at his burden!

Minor feelings occur when American optimism is enforced upon you, which contradicts your own racialized reality, thereby creating a static of cognitive dissonance.

Minor feelings occur when American optimism is enforced upon you, which contradicts your own racialized reality, thereby creating a static of cognitive dissonance. You are told, "Things are so much better," while you think, Things are the same. You are told, "Asian Americans are so successful," while you feel like a failure. This optimism sets up false expectations that increase these feelings of dysphoria.

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

These things happen. It is not the end of the world.

Tom te tom tom, tom te tom.' zong Frits in zichzelf, 'het gaat slecht, verder gaat het goed.

Het gaat slecht, verder gaat het goed.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Just keep fighting. Because actually isn't that bad. I mean, we started this band thinking that the world is just extremely ugly but I think now we realize it's more beautiful than we thought.

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

In bad luck hold out; in good luck, hold in

no matter how bad life gets, no matter how sometimes things seem to turn on you and make it seem like there's no longer any hope, don't forget that you always have THIS (Sunset) to look forward to at the end of every single day. Look at it, Jake. Right there is peace. And freedom. And there's nothing in this world that can touch it.

I was never one of those who collect many smaller joys to make a larger happiness as though putting together a bouquet of flowers. For me there had to be the one great ecstasy, the perfect happiness, a sun which then poured forth its rays of lesser delights. This sun may be at times clouded over, shrouded in fog, hidden by night; yet I know that it remains there, steadfast—a fixed star and not a wandering planet.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, nor knows it so thoroughly, nor is so much disgusted with it, but that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.