Quotes About Optimism

once told me this thing about brain chemistry, the nub of it being that when you're feeling good, you can't ever imagine feeling bad again. And when you're feeling bad, it's impossible to imagine a time when you won't be circling the drain.

If you're going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. Things are almost never as bad as they first seem. Loosen up, girlfriend!

Success comes in cans, not cannots.

Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with right perspective.

If you're going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now...Things are almost never as bad as they first seem. Loosen up, girlfriend... you could giggle more in real life.

Hope attacking doubt. It seemed crazy.

I still had hope. That was the key to a happy life.

You know," Melanie says, "most of the time things turn out well." "You're wrong. Most of the time things do not turn out well, and when they do, it's dangerous to expect that to last.

Don't even become a cynic. Anything but that!

Yeah. Sure," I say, 'cause I like that she sees the best in folk, and 'cause I like her.

Hey, I might've blown two classes. But you know what they say: The third time's the charm!

Don't let anyone discourage you, Jimmy said Maxine. Not even the inanimate objects on your walls, added Rafe. Were they really laughing at you, man? Yup, I said, tapping my temple. In my imagination. Whoa. That's where they're loudest.

No lo entiendes, Alex? No, creo que no lo entiendes. —¿Qué es lo que no entiendo, Jezzie? Dímelo de una vez. —Siempre estás buscando la parte buena de la gente. Pero no existe.

I am convinced that the world doesn't break in the face of its worst possible deed. The world mends itself.

The detectives who stayed positive, who carried hope in their hearts, were the ones most likely to have stamina.

Ready, guys?" said Mom. "Let's make the most of this. I hear the Gunkledunks are beautiful this time of year!" Georgia stacked up her bills into one huge pile. "Can we stop at the bank first?" she

Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Let us forget the frustrations of the past and think of our unfulfilled potential.

I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world.

I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

I'd like to think that, if I'm unhappy, that I would try and change things so I am happy.

Although I think I'm relatively happy as a person, I think there's something unhappy at the root of all my writing. I'd say optimistic but unhappy. Nothing that's particularly original, other than that we're going to live and die, and terrible things happen.

I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.