Quotes About Optimism

A dark time is the time when the most light can come in.

it seemed the sanest and most logical course: if the world was on fire, you might as well burn bright.

He had always admired his wife's idealism, her belief that the world could be made better,

Sometimes, just when you think everything is gone, you find a way.

It is not too late, he thinks . . . Not yet the end.

It is not too late. It is not too late.

To Lexie, the world seemed nearly perfect, and her fantasies were her real life with all the colors dialed up.

In his own little hometown, they'd been suspicious of ideas: he'd grown up surrounded by a kind of resigned cynicism, though he'd been sure the world could be better.

You just have to keep telling us there'll be more moments.

And don't forget to enjoy simple stuff like...being alive, which in itself is amazing news. For me, personally, it means I'm not dead, and I'm a fan of that. Optimism can start small, ya know?

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

The first World War had finally come to a close and it all seemed like springtime. I've learned since that it is in those moments, when one is lulled into hopefulness, that the sword drops onto one's head.

The twelfth gift is Faith. May you believe

The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life.

When its dark enough you can see the stars.

Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day is always in your possession. That's the day you remember. You get old and you think: well, at least I had that day. It happened once. You think all the variables might just line up again. But they don't. Not always. I once talked to a woman who said, "Yeah, that's the day we had an angel around.

The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

But true faith is never blind. Faith always knows. Faith always sees. Faith is able to look through the storm and see the end results. Faith will always talk the end results, instead of what exists at present.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.