Quotes About Optimism

Think Easy, Light, Smooth, and Fast. You start with easy, because if that's all you get, that's not so bad. Then work on light. Make it effortless, like you don't give a shit how high the hill is or how far you've got to go. When you've practiced that so long that you forget you're practicing, you work on making it smooooooth. You won't have to worry about the last one—you get those three, and you'll be fast.

there was never anything wrong with Jenni that couldn't be fixed by what's right with Jenni.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

The night is darkest before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.

Hoping is such hard work. It tires you out and you never seem to get any kind of reward. Hoping feels like you're a balloon that has a pinhole that slowly leaks air.

Ryan and Frederick (1997) showed that in a population suffering from debilitating pain, pain level per se did not detract from vitality. Instead, pain fright was negatively associated with vitality, as was attending treatment for external as opposed to internal reasons. Some of the factors that may influence one's sense of vitality and contribute to its resilience are one's feelings of personal causation, optimism, and perceptions of social support.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

Optimists have more fun, milord," Yorick reminded him. "Yeah, because pessimists have made things safe for 'em.

In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in art and true in life: you pretty much make your own destiny. If you are by nature an optimistic person, which I am, that puts you in a better position to be lucky in life.

The worst possible thing in the world can happen to you, and you will overcome it. You will be happy again.

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

I remembered the story of the bumblebee. Aerodynamically it is impossible for the bumblebee to fly. The body is too big for the small size of the wings, but apparently no one told the bumblebee that, so he flies! That's pretty much the story of setting goals. Nothing is impossible unless you believe it is." ~ 'Against All Odds: My Story

I remembered the story of the bumblebee. Aerodynamically it is impossible for the bumblebee to fly. The body is to big for the small size of the wings, but apparently no one told the bumblebee that, so he flies! That's pretty much the story of setting goals. Nothing is impossible unless you believe it is.

Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.

Why is it always easier to be optimistic about somebody else's worries?" Adrian said with a bitter laugh.

Hope is the thing that can't be reigned in by rules or pinned down by bitter experience. It's a blessing and a curse.

I still believe in love despite all the evidence to the contrary and I believe in soulmates although I believe mine may be agoraphobic.

I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.

There's life after divorce, Sarah,' my father proclaimed, not that he'd ever been divorced.

It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.