Quotes About Optimism

It was far easier to believe in unhappiness than in happiness.

Yes, everything will be all right, thanks to Elinor! She could have sung and danced (not that she was much of a dancer and she was sitting in a car).

Believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat

Why did his heart always insist on believing that there was a light in all this darkness? Where did he keep getting new hope from, after he had been disappointed countless times?

It was far easier to believe in unhappiness than happiness.

Why did his heart always insist on believing that there was light in all the darkness?

It's the place that worries you," said Hazel. "I don't like it myself, but it won't go on forever." Richard Adams, Watership Down

If only it wasn't so difficult. It was far easier to believe in unhappiness than in happiness.

Look, there are as many walkaway philosophies as there are walkaways, but mine is, 'the stories you tell come true.' If you believe everyone is untrustworthy, you'll build that into your systems so that even the best people have to act like the worst people to get anything done. If you assume people are okay, you live a much happier life.

humans are bright enough to think our way out of the problems we think ourselves into.

It's the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out.

Most people who hope have their hopes dashed. That's realism, but everyone whose hopes weren't dashed started off by having hope. Hope's the price of admission.

It's the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out." She

Screw the end of the world. The world doesn't end. Humans aren't the kind of things that have endings.

What they are is hopeful.

If I was living in a happier place, said Eggingarde, I might tell stories with happier endings.

Tomorrow. There was something hopeful, even about the word.

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup,' snorted Old Wrinkly, 'only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imaginations... and I used to think of you as an imaginative boy. Give up, if you want to... but I used to think of you as the sort of boy who would NEVER give up, however bad things looked.

If it doesn't end well, then it isn't the end

However bad things seem to be, they can always get worse!

Keep hoping, keep guessing, keep dreaming.

Hicke hade tagit liknande språng i hela sitt liv, språng undan faror, språng ut i det okända, språng utan skyddsnät. Hicke hade alltid litat på turen och på förvissningen om att världen i grund och botten var vänligt inställd till honom (s. 224, 226).

A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good...

What if God wants us to be happy? What if there's nothing else around the bend? What if all our unhappiness is in the past and from here on out we get an uncomplicated life? Some people get that, you know. Why shouldn't it be us?