Quotes About Optimism

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

Be happy. Persevere.

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy

Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you can bear to give it because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope

it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.

One can either despair and perish or be cheerful and persevere.

When you start life as a tumor with a brain, there's no where to go but up.

in a world where McDonald's now sells salads with low-fat dressing, anything is possible.

To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish to see them. - Addison Goodheart pg. 119

Ozzie Boone...insists that I keep the tone light in these biographical manuscripts. He believes that pessimism is strictly for people who are over-educated and unimaginative. Ozzie counsels me that melancholy is a self-indulgent form of sorrow. By writing in an unrelievedly dark mode, he warns, the writer risks culturing darkness in his heart, becoming the very thing that he decries.

I look at it and I say, You've got the wrong fellow. You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

Es sollte anders kommen als wir dachten, aber was kann man da schon machen? Man muss das Leben nehmen, wie es kommt, und sehen, dass man das Beste daraus macht.

per noi adulti l'arcobaleno è un auspicio di felicità.»

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

The nineties, ecstatic decade!

Michel is a good man, full of hope. Sometimes hope is exhausting.

Was it wrong to hope to be happy?

Life is hard enough, God knows, but it's unfailin' true in the end to the man or woman who finds the best in them an' stands by it. Uncle John, y'u talk so—so

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.