Quotes About Optimism

Live then, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day God deigns to reveal the future to man, the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words; Wait and Hope.

Buck up, buttercup, you've come through worse.

She was a dreamer and a schemer & one didnt dream and scheme without hope.

Clara will break him to bridle," Longmore said. "And if she can't cure his wild ways, who knows? Maybe he'll ride into a ditch or get run over by a post chaise, and she'll be a young widow. Do try to look on the bright side.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

The future is hope. Where's the hope if you already know what happens? What are you living for then? What are you striving for?

And just because she was crossing her fingers didn't mean her wish would come true.

Don't be a whiner, she told herself. Concentrate on the good things in life, even if there don't seem to be too many of them left.

The future had started to seem like a challenge he could conquer.

It was 1965 and life seemed easier. Her parents were alive and so was her brother, her bones were hard and strong and her vision perfect....It was 1965 and she was filled with hope, lush pots of ivy spilling from her window boxes as she leaned out late in the day to see the sunset, to smell the river, to watch her husband turn the corner as he headed home. She was so alive.

Live as big as you can, with what you've got.

But you make of it [life] what you can, and you do your best to enjoy the hell out of it, because it's the only life you get.

And then I went on to make the most of those two years. It's over and done, Aubrey, he promised. And anyway, I'm hoping if I play my cards right, you're going to give me a lifetime.

Are you okay? Fan-fricking-tastic. Only way today could get better is if I were scheduled for an appendectomy. Without drugs. In a third-world country.

Because if she had to be off-track and a little lost, then she was going to have fun while she was at it, dammit.

Here was the thing: life sucked if you let it ... Caffeine helped. For up to thirty-eight blissful minutes it could even trick her into thinking she was in a decent mood.

You're as happy as you make up your mind to be." PHOEBE TRAEGER

You're as happy as you make up your mind to be.

And no worries, my elevator still goes to the top floor.

Lincoln said it best: "People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.

Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.

You're such a cynic, Molly said. I think cynics are playful and cute.