You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite...

Patience is the glue that binds hard work and faith.

At first, one only recognizes particular instances to be worth of critique; critique appears synonymous with rejection, implying deficiency in the object. Over time, one discovers that everything warrants critique. This can produce cynicism: nothing...

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane...

We all have our alloted portions of black and white paint; how we lay it on is a question of temperament.

We are gods in the chrysalis.

There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d’etats on the state of irrational optimism

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

Peace is one thing, revolution is another. You were either impatient or highly optimistic to think one would lead to the other. – Panchali Draupadi.

Let it snow, tomorrow is spring! So far, smile…

(Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that he was not about to die.

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

Wherever you go in the next catastrophéBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ryDo not fear that your stay will besolit’ryCountless souls share your fate,you’ll have company!

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to...

Begin each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

Be happy — if you’re not even happy, what’s so good about surviving?

I wish there were strict laws to stop people from corrupting other people’s mind with their negativity thus influencing them to form biased opinion of someone, some situation or overall way of living.

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 different ways to do it wrong.

Have a selective optimistic sight, transform the bitch glitch “in stitches.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

guardian of freedom and the American way of life.

Future is one of the wildest experiences that you will ever have.

I am, and always will be, the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our...

We are all somewhat mercurial for temperament, and it is much easier to believe that all is well when the sun is shining, and yet, is not the sun always shining just behind the clouds...

When all else fails, stare straight into the sun.

If I got upset every time someone beat me, or chased me, or tried to rape me, I’d be crying in my cereal every morning. No one likes a whiner.

Don’t say, ‘The sky is my limit.’ Say, ‘I progress ad infinitum.’

It must be, I thought, one of the race’s most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that “it can’t happen here” — that one’s own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

You know, Molly, if you can hold in your mind what you want long enough, you shall have it.

Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.

Head up, heart open. To better days!

There’s definitely optimism that there’s a couple guys who can get up to that to 20-goal, maybe even 25-goal plateau. The thing with this year’s team is that there’s not going to be pressure on...

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a...

Der Pessimismus der Vernunft verpflichtet zum Optimismus des Willens!

Mothers do not have love affairs. Before their children they have dreams, and after their children they have delusions. If the father is involved somewhere, they have fantasies.

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

The disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren’t terribly esoteric. The means to attain a capability far beyond that of the so-called ordinary person are within the reach of everyone, if their desire and...

A healthy attitude is contagious; let others catch it.

You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media]

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

It’s a landscape painting of Key West, from the perspective of an optimistic blind man.

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

As we all know, life is always moving on.

The fantasy of childhood, amazing optimism .

Don’t stop after you reach your goals; aim to surpass them!