Quotes About Optimism

Laugh at both the state of the world and at ourselves. In doing so, it allows us to acknowledge our flaws while also transcending them.

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. —Saint Francis of Assisi

Ceasing negative imaging will always cause your

These supersurvivors radically deviate from their previous life paths, often transforming the worst thing that's happened to them into the best.

Dreaming big is the key to happiness. Dreaming big is energizing. Dreaming big is fun. Can you remember a time in your life when you used to dream big? When you had things you wanted to accomplish and you weren't afraid to talk about them? Do you remember what it felt like to not have to be so "responsible"?

Things might look bad now,but in matters of the heart you'd be surprised how quickly things change.

for once in a long time, he felt good. No worries, just possibilities. Endless possibilities.

Only one billion, nine hundred and sixty-three million, four hundred and seventy-nine Thousand, eight hundred and sixteen possibilities. I should be able to get through them in the next seven Thousand, eight hundred and fourteen years. Just sit tight and call up lots of room service. - Dan

Hey, it's all good.

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to

Decker said, "It doesn't have to be this

That might not seem like much to some, but when you have nothing, anything seems like a fortune.

I can see light at the end of the tunnel and it isn't a train.

But then, of course, it could have been worse. This may not be the best of all possible worlds. But Pangloss never met Murphy. And things could have been very much worse, indeed. The pyramid loomed ahead, separated by a broad river from the main part of an alien metropolis that had once been named Cal'mari.

one by Alasdair Gray – relayed by my colleague, author Ken McLeod[143] – that sums everything so-concisely and optimistically, but with a slightly science-fictional flair: "Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

Mental Filtering. You filter out or ignore the positives and focus entirely on the negatives. It's like a drop of ink that discolors the entire beaker of water.

Hope alone is a powerful antidepressant.

But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

You're a cynic, Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.

Promises are just breaks in the rain. Sun comes out for a moment. Just long enough to make you hope. Then it always starts raining again.

Una de ellas era la reinterpretación, es decir, tratar de entender la situación más positivamente. En el caso de los conflictos, eso implica cambiar nuestra creencia de que un conflicto es como una pelea de box, como se muestra en la ilustración 48.

Hal wills himself to stay objective and not form any judgments before he has serious data, hoping desperately for some sort of hopeful feeling to emerge.

The dignity of a man risen by will from the ashes of Withdrawal and now on the upswing and with places to go and potentially considerate Canadians to see.