Quotes About Optimism

As of the present chaos I could only hope that, by keeping faith, by still trying to give of one's best, a brighter, calmer day might one day.

This is both a gloomy and a hopeful book.

Frances was, by nature, an organizer. She wanted to believe that happiness could be arranged. Well, perhaps it could.

not to borrow trouble by worrying about it.

They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.

I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset. Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.

On the bright side, I'm sure this isn't the last time you'll ever get firebombed, so maybe you'll have better luck next time.

Once again, the key to true happiness is lowered expectations.

There's always tomorrow." "Exactly," she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn't starve to death, she decided. Maybe she'd eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut.

We're not going to die. You're with me kiddo and it just happens I know a few survival skills. Oh yeah right. Like carrying your Visa Gold in case the restaurant doesn't accept American Express.

May misfortune follow us the rest of our lives, but never catch up.

The difference between adventure and adversity is attitude.

I'm a glass-is-half-full person now, and your sorry ass is still in half-empty country.

My philosophy is aim high and fail big.

key to true happiness is lowered expectations.

figure you gotta have the right attitude about this stuff. Take Dolly, for instance. Dolly was gonna try to keep her lunch date, which is a good thing, because life gotta go on. And even though he was dead, Dirk sort of looked like he was smiling.

I figure happiness is a choice that you make.

Okay, let's try

believe just about anything.

Nobody has a completely happy life, unless you're completely imbecilic. Life is mostly pretty awful.

Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time.

I find the strongest predictor of people who do well at Shopify is whether they see opportunity as something to compete for, or do they see opportunity as essentially everywhere and unlimited? It's a rough proxy for pessimism and optimism.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

We should learn not to hold grudges and be positive all the time because life is too short and unpredictable.