Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.

Eritrean people are strong and caring. And despite all that we had been through we were brimming with optimism. Our country was on the verge of huge change.

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a...

Sometimes you can miss the boat and find a new life.

If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior. You are still able to actively seek solutions to your...

There has never been a more urgent time than now for you to seek to maximize your potential for achieving greater balance in your life.

I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.

Of all the pessimistic people, I am the most optimistic. I look forward to looking down on all the people looking up to me for answers from below.

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

I’m so alive.As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As always, it is a beautiful day. The sun is making its...

It always has been and always will be the same. The old folk of our grandfathers’ young days sang a song bearing exactly the same burden; and the young folk of to-day will drone out...

Optimists think badly, but live well.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

To talk of many things:Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax—Of cabbages—and kings—”I looked at it and wet my lips. It wasn’t mine, but what the hell, a man had to start someplace.

Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.

I am enjoying my life because things aren’t going the way I planned.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or scientists maintain their truths at the risk of death. Eppur si muove, Galileo...

21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.

You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment…Joy is so fleeting. You never know when it might be snatched away.

Relax. They’re not going to kill us. They’re going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing.

Someone will complete you some day and that day will never be late. Those nouns and verbs are above wonderful and never ending .

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for...

Until further notice, celebrate everything.

I am chic, sleek, and so unique.

Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of sunbeams. Press the soft blossoms against your cheek, and finger their graces of form, their delicate mutability of shape, their pliancy and freshness. Expose your face...

To be a success, water your dream with optimism and love.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

I have more enemies than I deserve,” I said. “I am fighting a losing battle, me against the world. The next century is at stake. Time is running out and my optimism is sorely strained.””Yeah?”...

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that’s why they go ahead and play the game…You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it’s hardly ever what you expect.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

There’s probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

You know, if you’re hopeful, if you’re even a little bit happy about something that might happen, it doesn’t affect the outcome. You could still give yourself a period of optimism, even if it all...

The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them...

If optimism is the highest form of courage — as I am beginning to believe it is — then these students are all heroes.

We’re living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimism that come out of the universities are really a major tragedy. The opportunities for progress and change… are absolutely tremendous. Anybody who tells...

By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.

You’re just Little Miss Optimist, aren’t you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?

Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Roy Bennett

Yeah. Isn’t it great?

I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an...

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens,...

Men crawl in slime and wallow in the mud;The Realist groans: “All life is mud ans slime!”Men lie and steal and shed each other’s blood;And Realism sees but blood and crime.Yet Right is just as...

When you dream with optimism and trust, it becomes a reality fast.

I am so far from being a pessimist…on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

The author, then in the final stage as a candidate for Delta Force, was asked by the unit’s foreboding colonel what he thought of the evaluation’s Stress Week. He responded that he was waiting for...

Horas non numero nisi serenas,’ ‘I count – no – hours but – unclouded ones,

The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.

I was blind and heart broken and didn’t want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, “I have wonderful news!” And I was like, “I don’t really want to hear wonderful...