Quotes About Outlook

When you change the way you look at something, what you look at changes.

All it takes is just a little change of perspective and you begin to see a whole new world.

have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." The first First Lady's philosophy

Only the optimist looks wisely on life. Though the actual world is not to his liking, it is the happiness of the optimist to carry a nobler in his thought.

We would rather be sure of a correctly predicted negative outcome than face the realistic uncertainty of an unpredictable future even if it includes the possibility of great joy and success.

Or maybe she was being uncharitable. Maybe they were just trying to make the best out of their disappointment. The

Maggie's favorite phrase, something her mom in Quebec had taught her, was "You bring your own weather to the picnic." So both women smiled a lot. They both had smiles so great you sometimes forgot that they were meaningless. Maggie's

I don't call fifty very old," said Miss Maudie tartly.

Things are never as bad as they seem

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem at the time

People can generally be classified into two groups: the mediocre realists and the mediocre dreamers. You clearly belong to the latter. Your fate is and will always be the fate of a dreamer.

Everything has a bright side," he said. "The top of even the blackest, thickest cloud shines like silver.

It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.

Even the darkest, thickest cloud shines silver when viewed from above.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

En realidad, estoy completamente a favor de la resignación. Puedes convencerte a ti mismo de cualquier guión que elijas y eso te tiene como unas pascuas;...

when one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one the one which has opened for us.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow

when one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot be in the shadows

Keep your face to sunshine and you cannot see the shadows

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.