Quotes About Outlook

We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

Hopeless implies that at one time there was hope. And that's another word I don't understand. Hope only exists for people who have choices. [Zarek]

So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

I dont walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. Its worse than bleak, its apocalyptic.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is almost always right

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter

Bilgewater, and so what's the use o' your bein' sour? It'll only make things oncomfortable. It ain't my fault I warn't born a duke, it ain't your fault you warn't born a king—so what's the use to worry? Make the best o' things the way you find 'em, says I—that's my motto.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little." Mark Twain

If you're optimistic, think of it as bronze.

Look for the good," Louise Weir had taught her sons. "The bad happens anyway.

You may have noticed that when I do manage to care, I'm a pessimist.

Whoever said, It's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost.

Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.

The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books - they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied form of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.

is it at all possible for you to prevent your washed-up cynicism from completely coloring everything?

The simpler way to say it is that perspective matters.

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These views were voiced by the school of 'optessimists', i.e. philosophers who derived optimism for the future from a pessimistic appraisal of the present. The 21st Voyage, The Star Diaries

If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently.

The Altitude of a person depends upon his attitude

As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils I will believe it a good comfortable road untill I am conpelled to beleive differently.

life is what we make it and acceptance is the key to all our affairs.