Quotes About Optimism

A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar.

hope is just another phase you'll grow out of. Who

The second Death Star is destroyed. The Emperor and his powerful enforcer, Darth Vader, are rumored to be dead. The Galactic Empire is in chaos. Across the galaxy, some systems celebrate, while in others Imperial factions tighten their grip. Optimism and fear reign side by side. And while the Rebel Alliance engages the fractured forces of the Empire, a lone rebel scout uncovers a secret Imperial meeting….

Way she sees it, people fall into one of two categories: those who think their death is imminent, and those who figure they have long, healthy lives ahead of them. Nobody ever thinks it's somewhere in-between.

You did what you could and held faith that it would get better. Sometimes it did. A lot of times, it didn't.

I take it this means that you had good news from the doctor? She says I shall live to be a hundred. And what's the good news?

We find hope where we can, and where we cannot, invent it.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

A floating catfish cake doesn't sink!

Now relax, think positively and begin --- the smile of success awaits you.

Blackness was not the whole of it. "There are bright points of light—so many!—between the dark places. This is what's important. This is where life is.

Sunflowers know the secret of life is to follow the sun.

Never a truer word said or thought. Anything was possible.

You only saw the darkness, Tammy. There was another side to her. I think there always is, don't you? There's always some light in the darkness, somewhere.

Hope costs nothing.

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

It seemed to me that a solution must be found. Here, my natural optimism was to my advantage. For when I read Sartre or Camus or Graham Greene, I experienced a temperamental rejection of their pessimism. I suspected that their ultimate picture might be distorted by a certain self-pity or lack of discipline—or, in the case of Greene, by a certain congenital lack of vitality. I suspected that if the problem left them defeated, it was because they had not attacked it hard enough.

He told himself: Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it.

Don't be afraid: you have a best seller on your hands.

He is fat and pink. On the United Elevator Co. advertisements, they airbrush away the pocks in his cheeks, the red slivers in his nose. In person he is too flesh, a handful of raw meat. Dogs have been known to follow him, optimistic.

Gnaw on a disappointment long enough and it will lose all flavor.

Att se bojor på en annan människa och vara glad att de inte är ens egna – sådan var den lycka som stod färgade till buds, de som definierades av hur mycket värre det närsomhelst kunde blir.

Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it.

That was a temporary setback," Zippo said. "If you call an opportunity to take stock and really think about how you can make your life better a 'setback.