Quotes About Optimism

Tell me a way you think this can work. We'll find a way, I tell her. That's not an answer. It's a hope. Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.

I hope suffering don't exist.

better , adj. and adv. Will it ever get better? It better. Will it ever get better? It better. Will it ever get better? It better.

A plan is a thing that goes unsaid, but puts the hope in your voice nonetheless.

We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness.

willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started

The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

Oh, honey, she says when I'm done with my wallowing, it's like my grandma used to say: Just when you think life's got you in a gutter, a tornado will come along and destroy your house. And then you rebuild? I ask. Well, she never mentioned that part, but I suppose it could happen. I am not cheered up.

So we must buck up, put on a kind face, and get on with it.

Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.

You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.

Here's what breaks us: Even if we know better, we still want everything to be all right

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking. What would you have them do?

but if you keep focusing on why you have it so bad, you'll never realize how you could have it so good.

Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

Please tell me this pity party ends early. Or at least serves cake.

It's like my grandma used to say: Just when you think life's got you in a gutter, a tornado will come along and destroy your house. And then you rebuild? I ask. Well, she never mentioned that part, but I suppose it could happen.

You're still a pinless grenade over the world not being perfect. no, I am a pinless grenade over the world being cruel but every time I'm proven wrong, that pin goes in a little more.

Because we can't stop the weltschmerz, we can't stop imagining the world as it might be. Which is awesome! It is my favorite thing about us!

There's always tomorrow, I tell myself. Which sounds less possible than someday, and much more possible than never. -A

Nothing ever happens on this globe for good without some people having their fill of laughter at first.

The bad can be found in anything. It is so much easier to find than the good.

I certainly have room in my life for caution, but I have no room in my life for paralyzing fear. There's always a risk. There always has been. But I'd rather live my life than die of negations.