Quotes About Optimism

The worst really wasn't that bad.

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." —Mark Twain

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway.

Fear itself is quite fear-inducing. Most intelligent people in the world dress it up as something else: optimistic denial.

No tendría más sentido guardarse más bien lo contrario? ¿Recordar todas las veces que sí salió bien? ¿Todas las veces que asumimos un riesgo? ¿Todas las veces que logramos alegrarle a alguien el día? Cuando

Here's why I think it seems to work, and there are several possibilities.

Exact numbers aren't needed to realize that we spend too much time with those who poison us with pessimism, sloth, and low expectations of themselves and the world.

Many people don't even know what having a normal mood feels like; but optimism, faith, courage, strength, [and] personal empowerment are some of its qualities.

It's really how you look at it, and the way you look at it is so important. If you can have a positive attitude,

Buscan la excepción de la regla porque nadie conoce el futuro. Podemos inventarlo, podemos convencernos de que irá bien.

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Here is what Murakami has to say about running, which can be applied to anything: Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you're running and you think, "Man, this hurts, I can't take it anymore." The "hurt" part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

The letters I-M are all that lies between 'Possible' and 'Impossible' Which means 'I'm' the only thing between 'Possible' and 'Impossible' So every day I choose to do the I'mpossible.

and forward thinker. Genome, The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, The Rational Optimist—they're all great.

What was it like, being married to six actresses?" "Like being married to one of them. They're all pretty much alike." "Why'd you keep doing it, then?" "Hope is the thing with feathers," Trent said, "that tickles your scrotum at the moments when you most need a clear head.

Life is just there, to be made the best of, until it isn't. And that's all right, too.

I'm an optimist in spite of a lifetime of evidence to prove that living optimistically is likely to be as disappointing as taking astrological advice,

I have been called an irrepressible optimist. The opposite of an irrepressible optimist is a repressive pessimist

If you once believed that everything always turns out well in the end, you can be persuaded that nothing turns out well in the end. If you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

Quando sei a un bivio e trovi una strada che va in su e una che va in giù, piglia quella che va in su. È più facile andare in discesa, ma alla fine ti trovi in un buco. A salire c'è speranza. È difficile, è un altro modo di vedere le cose, ti tiene all'erta.

When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and that falling and dying are for quitters. We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will be allowed to stay green forever

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.