Quotes About Optimism

Things are never as good as you think they are or ever as bad as you think they are.

Our hopes are our gods. Gods create struggles similar to our battles with demons, except they are attempts to get something rather than get away from something. Gods are involved with struggles of desire and longing rather than aversion. It is important to distinguish between an inspiration, which triggers positive energy and optimism without great attachment or tension involved, and a god, which is connected to longing for something, or being obsessed with a certain outcome.

One day you're going to wake up and the world won't be as dark … One day the air will change, and the sun will feel good on your face again, and when it does, I want you to let it. It won't be a betrayal. It won't mean you've stopped caring. I promise.

Idiotic hopeful former self had hoped for them. Idiotic hopeful former self was very stupid.

You'll adjust," Foeslayer said, rolling her eyes. "It's a great kingdom; you'll see.

I see you going to the giving-up place in your head. Get yourself out of there right now. We do not know he's dead any more than we did an hour ago. What we have to do is keep searching, because he's only definitely dead if we give up and sit here like moping camels. You are not allowed to mourn until you see a dead body, do you understand me?

She kept smiling,

Tui T. Sutherland

I'mjustsayingshe'dbeallright,

For every dark night, there's a brighter day.

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

It will all be okay

Stop making the perfect enemy of the good.

Clap on with both hands, sir - never say die - one more heave and we're home, safe and dry.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Le mal même comporte son bien qu'il ne faut pas laisser perdre

she could not see how much there was to live for, that she was young and that one could build anew upon the ashes of failure

If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now.

pain is fact; suffering is optional

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

Possibility is the oxygen upon which hope thrives.

All I've got to do today is smile.

In my what-am-I-doing-here? mood Akisha was a timely lesson. She made a point of staying positive, didn't grumble, never gossiped, and she expected the best from her students. She was also a passionate photographer, and though her talk was always upbeat, her photographs were a record of all she had seen.

There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.