In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that...

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

The cup is both half full and half empty; it has never been one or the other. Stop obsessing over the trivial cup and drink the medicine you’ve been given.

I’m no optimist”, she said as she opened the cabinet door. ” I’m just a realist who smiles too much.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn’t stop worrying about the worst. Hope, said Professor Jove, was Solomon Kugel’s greatest failing.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

What a pessimist you are!” exclaimed Candide.”That is because I know what life is,” said Martin.

Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.Getting to the top is the manna of life.AL/fd

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder–no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

When the sun of consciousness first shone upon me, behold a miracle! The stock of my young life which had perished, steeped in the waters of knowledge grew again, budded again, was sweet again with...

There is no optimism there, … realistic.

Things are always better in the morning.

I admit to being prone to deep thinking, which – given that I’m emerging from dark times – can take me to some very sombre or profound places. But this is no bad thing. I...

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of...

I am no ecological Pollyana. I have borne, and will continue to bear, feelings of wholehearted melancholy over the ecological state of the earth. How could I not? How could anyone not? But I am...

SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: … But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us nowadays.MRS CHEVELEY: Oh, I’m neither. Optimism...

I said, ‘Yes theres a lot to look a head to. Like croaking iron at Widders Dump. We do the croaking and they get the iron.’He said, ‘Riddley theres other things to do as wel.’I...

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long...

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.

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

Les optimistes et les pessimistes ont un grand défaut qui leur est commun : ils ont peur de la vérité