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Quotes About Optimism

Better weak beer than an empty cask.
~ Danish Proverb
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are, if indeed you cannot get it above them, than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
~ Henry David Thoreau, 1853
Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes.
~ Irish saying
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Donut worry, be happy!
~ Internet meme, c. 2017
Let your sorrow smile once in a while.
~ Terri Guillemets
Faith makes things possible, not easy.
~ Author Unknown
There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today.
~ Lois Chartrand
I wish I were a glow worm, A glow worm's never glum. 'Cuz how can you be grumpy When the sun shines out your bum?
~ Author Unknown
Even if you've been fishing for three hours and haven't gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you're still better off than the worm.
~ Author Unknown
The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.
~ Robert Leighton
When all else fails, sprinkle glitter on it.
~ Crafts & scrapbooking saying
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world; some people go through life creaking.
~ Friendly Calendar, 1911
Real happiness is more of a habit than a goal, more of an attitude than an attainment. It is the companion of cheerfulness, not the creature of circumstance. Happiness is what overtakes us when we forget ourselves, when we learn to open our eyes in optimism and close the door in the face of defeat.
~ William Arthur Ward
Hope whispers from every hyacinth-bell...
~ Elizabeth Holmes, 1830
Hope is the gardener of the heart.
~ J. De Finod
Here's to Hope! — the child of Care, And pretty sister of Despair, Here's hoping that Hope's children shan't Take after their Grandma or Aunt!
~ Oliver Herford, c.1903
All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden.
~ Terri Guillemets
The birds of hope are everywhere — listen to them sing.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hope is a choice of courage.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hope is that lone bloom in the desert when you can see nothing else but sand.
~ Terri Guillemets
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God.
~ Charles L. Allen
Let hope be your pulse Faith in every heartbeat Joy with every breath...
~ Terri Guillemets
Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have.
~ Author Unknown