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Quotes About Optimism

Like "love," "hope" is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.
~ Jim Butcher
I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.
~ Jim Butcher
Thank God for wisecracks.
~ Jim Butcher
Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light.
~ Jim Butcher
Isana felt her throat tighten. We failed. Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.
~ Jim Butcher
I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said.
~ Jim Butcher
Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise.
~ Jim Butcher
The world seems dark and ugly sometimes. But there are still good things in it. And good people.
~ Jim Butcher
Death isn't when your body stops working. It's when there's no more future. When you can't see past right now, because you stopped believing in tomorrow.
~ Jim Butcher
That's the great thing about being a wizard. I can always tell myself, honestly, that things could be worse.
~ Jim Butcher
I've always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity.
~ Jim Butcher
Faith in what?" "That things will unfold as they are meant to," Forthill said. "That even in the face of an immediate ugliness, the greater picture will resolve into something all the more beautiful.
~ Jim Butcher
Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!
~ Jim Butcher
Hope lets you do things you would otherwise never be able to do, gives strength when everything is darkest. In
~ Jim Butcher
You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute.
~ Jim Butcher
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.
~ Jim Butcher
If at first you don't succeed," Bob said cheerfully, "you probably needed a better plan to begin with.
~ Jim Butcher
Like 'love,' 'hope' is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer. (Harry Dresden - Turn Coat)
~ Jim Butcher
Even in Winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.
~ Jim Butcher
I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining
~ Jim Butcher
Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
~ Jim Butcher
Hope lets you do things you would otherwise never be able to do, gives strength when everything is darkest.
~ Jim Butcher
Despair sees no hope, while hope sees no despair.
~ Jim George
He had been foolish enough to believe that as he recovered over the past few months the world might be recovering with him
~ Jim Harrison