Quotes About Optimism

Tenemos dos opciones. Podemos ser pesimistas, abandonar y contribuir a que ocurra lo peor sin vuelta atrás. O ser optimistas, atrapar las oportunidades que sin duda existen y contribuir, tal vez, a que el mundo sea un lugar mejor. No es una elección demasiado difícil.

As Chomsky says, if you act like there is no possibility of change for the better, you guarantee that there will be no change for the better. The choice is ours, the choice is yours. Robert

One choice is to assume the worst, and then you can be guaranteed that it'll happen. The other is to assume that there's some hope for change, in which case it's possible that you can help to effect change. So you've got two choices, one guarantees the worst will happen, the other leaves open the possibility that things might get better. Given those choices, a decent person doesn't hesitate.

All beginnings are intrinsically happy.

It's hopeless. I know that, but I never really get it. I go right on. I think to myself: I was wrong about the last one, but I'll try harder to be right about the next one.

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

You have to believe in it to get it...

Don't give up on your own happy-evers.

You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

After hell comes heaven.

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing. That's the best description of a good marriage I've ever heard...

Laura, there aren't any guarantees. You certainly know that. Yes, you could be hurt. You could also be happy. Or you could just get your oil checked.

She wasn't the type to sit around ticking off the negatives of her life to see if she could make them outweigh the positives. If something was wrong, something was missing, she acted. Fix the problem and move ahead. Or if the problem couldn't be fixed, she found the best way to live with it.

Optimism wasn't always a shield against the worst of it, and acceptance wasn't always enough.

Only a fool asked for more sorrow. Only a romantic believed that bitterness could ever be sweet.

If you look for it, you can find something good about anybody.

We'll be okay. Luck's starting to move in our direction.

It's harsh. There's enough harsh in the world. I'm going to try a little optimism for a change.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. —Samuel Smiles

is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. —Samuel Smiles

It's not bad," Arlys repeated, and though her chin wobbled, she managed a smile. "I'm going to say it." "It's just a scratch?" "Right. Just a flesh wound.

Gamblers are either rich people who don't give a shit if they lose, or suckers who actually think they can win.

However long it took, light would beat back the dark.