Quotes About Optimism

For a time the broken heart, and then suddenly the healing conviction that one is jolly well out of it.

I wish people wouldn't tell me I can't do things.

She's stopped the allowance... I tell you, Bertie, I've examined the darned clouds with a microscope, and if it's got a silver lining it's some little dissembler!

The years fell away from him till, in an instant, from being a rather poorly preserved, liverish greybeard of sixty-five or so, he became a sprightly lad of twenty-one in a world of springtime and flowers and laughing brooks. In other words, taking it by and large, George felt pretty good. The impossible had happened; Heaven had sent him an adventure, and he didn't care if it snowed.

I was losing the old pep and…unless the clouds changed their act and started dishing out at an early date a considerably more substantial slab of silver lining than they were coming across with at the moment, I should soon be definitely down among the wines and spirits.

beggars approached the task of trying to persuade perfect strangers to bear the burden of their maintenance with that optimistic vim which makes all the difference.

I could make a poet out of far less promising material. I could make a poet out of two sticks and a piece of orange peel.

It occurred to him as a passing thought that all was for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole

You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodlegammon.

There were nights in the hot weather when Mike would be despondent. A New York summer night does not encourage optimism.

The Problem of Life seemed to him to be solved. He looked on down the years, and he could see no troubles there of any kind whatsoever. Reason suggested that there were probably one or two knocking about somewhere, but this was no time to think of them. He examined the future, and found it good.

A] single glance told him that here was somebody who was sitting on a pink cloud with a rainbow round his shoulder. Mr. Trout had not yet burst into song with a hey nonny nonny and a hotchacha, but when you said that you had said everything.

Give me the sorrow of the entire world, I will turn it into hope.

veo el mundo enteramente rosa y azul.

Podrán cortar todas las flores, pero no podrán detener la primavera. (You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot delay springtime.)

I didn't know what the future held in store for me, but I felt hopeful.

Once we begin to look for what's right, our lives begin spinning in unimaginably exciting new directions.

So instead of asking the question "Why do bad things happen to good people?" perhaps the better question is "Why do good people think bad things can even happen?" Bad is nothing but a judgment call, a judgment call we're not qualified to make. Just like American Idol hasn't requested your services next to JLo and Keith Urban, you aren't qualified to judge what is good and bad.

The way I see it, there are just two things we need to know: The universe has our back. Everything is going to turn out okay.

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What would you attempt to do if you knew you couldn't fail?" When I got that, I thought, Of course, I would just go for it! And that's what you've got to do every single day of your thirties and beyond. Just go for it! Your life is now.

Everything gets better in the end. If it's not better, it's not quite the end.

I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living. We must return to nature and nature's God.