Quotes About Optimism

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

I know absolutely nothing about where I'm going. I'm fine with that. I'm happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn't really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It's all blank pages waiting to be written on. It's all about going forward. It's all about uncertainty and possibilities.

I want to come across as a positive person.

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

And yet there is something there. People of faith share a camaraderie that is hard to reproduce in other social circumstances, and they often display a cheerful, albeit oddly naïve, attitude.

She was resolved to take the risk of being happy.

Rijkaard was aware of the stars' behaviour, but indulged them, ever the optimist that the players were mature and responsible enough to know when to draw the line. It was a mistake. And, by the middle of the 2006–07 season that started poorly in Monaco, it was a trend far too late to reverse as Barcelona's results and their performances reflected the breakdown in discipline.

So when does an anomaly quit being an anomaly and start being just the way things happen to be? What if you and I are not the last of our kinds, but one of the first? The first of better creatures in a better world? We can hope, can't we? That we're not of the past, but the future?

I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air

Your positivity can become a castle around you which will protect you from the arrow of negativity.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Perfection is the enemy of the good.

Yo tengo fe en el porvenir

Happy," said Thomas. "When I grow up, I am going to be happy." Mrs. van Amersfoort was about to pull a book from the shelf, but turned in surprise. She looked at Thomas with a smile and said, "That is a damn good idea. And do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.

Life is there to be fought, old fruit. Don't give me any of that doomy, neurotic hogswash.

Sis, you said in your last letter that you did not know as you ever would sees me again, that may be the case, but I hope not. At any rate you must not think that untill you are ablidge to, and if it shood be the case I am in hopes that we may meat hearafter wheir their is no way, but let ous both hope for the best. It will be time anough to get downhearted when the worst has com.

Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.

I am always, endlessly, hoping to be surprised." "Then I wish it for you.

Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

If I had learned one thing from Homer over the years, it was that just because you couldn't quite see your way out of a difficulty, that didn't mean a way out didn't exist.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.