Quotes About Optimism

Nearly every crisis seems to be the worst one, but after it's over, it isn't so bad.

Jerry had trouble imagining himself in his thirties, much less his seventies. What would 2024 look like? The politics would have to be better than today's. They couldn't very well be any worse!

nothing changes when you say no, so say yes and let the world know you're open to possibility.

The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.

The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

the place where optism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

This is the picture of the spirit world. It is the world of the optimist. The pessimist has no share in its great glory, because he refuses to accept the possibility which is the nature of life. Thus he denies to himself all he desires, and even the possibility of achieving his desires.

You can do this. Everyday has been a little easier than the last. Today will be better than yesterday and tomorrow will be better than today.

People says it gets easier. People are stupid." -Vlad

Hold out for the best there is, Kiernan. You should have it. Make sure that there's fire. Maybe there'll be ice, too, but hold out for the extremes, for the best, the brightest. Don't accept anything lukewarm. Because you're fire and ice, and you're the brightest and the best, Kiernan.

Everything must be improving. If things are bad, they are always about to get better. Reluctance to see it that way will be encountered as willful misery…Yet this chirpy insistence on positivity has a strange way of enhancing the dread and anxiety and melancholy that lie just beneath the surface of things.

over the horizon.

there is hope in maybe. Maybe. Such a tiny word. Such a powerful word.

Heather Vogel Frederick

Hope. Such a tiny word. Such a powerful word.

Things are never as bad as they seem. —Miss Maudie, To Kill a Mockingbird

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be. —Martha Washington

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, "It will be happier." —Alfred Lord Tennyson

Because you know what's even better than happy endings?" "What?" "Happy middles." "You think?" "All the happy with none of the finality. All the happy with room enough to grow. What could be better than that?" "For a while," said Rosie. "A while's a long time," said Penn.

So Grumwald felt his way was, if not firmly paved, at least densely pebbled, and that was as good a start as one could wish for.