But there’s a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.

You need to manage your expectations. You’ll live longer.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it’s fun in the end.

The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of...

The best kind of happiness is a habit you’re passionate about.

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Positive emotions, such as the feelings of love, kindness, self-worth, confidence and optimism, produce a better person and a good destiny.

Dear Optimism, nice to see you. I’ve got an extra room, how about you stay for a while.

Even when you don’t see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye

Make every misadventure an adventure.

Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship.

Author describes one character’s optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us,...

Just another case of sometimes. Sometimes fates plans are different from your own. Sometimes the beautiful things are right in your reach but you settle for things that are good enough to make you happy....

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

How can I?

The process of thinking is a way of analyzing and making the right assumption at the right moment in life.

The optimism is great, the phones are ringing, reservations are flowing in. The word is definitely out that it’s going to be a good season. Anytime there’s a good ski season that naturally spills over...

There’s no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don’t look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

If your glass is half empty, fill it up to be full.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

I envied Lesley her unshakable optimism. She always looked on the bright side of things. If they Had a bright side.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater’s jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan’s pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one.

Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

Ana never saw the rotten apples littering the ground as she continually reached for the rare golden apple on the tree. Ana had stepped in a lot of rotten apples in her lifetime. She should...

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

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Life is too short to cry for anything so smile and do what makes you happy with morals

Eliminate blame, guilt, and worry from your diet and watch your health improve.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

As an author, I like self-help, because clapping can be done by myself, for myself. I should buy gloves.

However, robust evidence shows that people systematically overestimate the probability of positive future contingencies, and underestimate the probability of negative ones — only those who are depressed or dysphoric come to accurate assessments.

TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.What we...

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them. -Scarlett O’Hara

And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been...

In fact, if you’re wondering if I expect miracles—the answer is yes. Even when they don’t seem to happen, I keep believing in them. Even when I stop believing in them, I’ll always start again....

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.

The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. …I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it’s not just...

Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.

When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all,...

I am an optimist and when I am too sure of something or someone, well, of course it turns out that I am wrong .. at other situations, I imagine the worst and needless to...

Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity

You’ll feel even worse, of course, but you’ll carry on, because happiness has a way of creeping in again. It really does,” I said.

optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery...

I think there was a lot of optimism built into the market that a soft landing is coming and the Fed will be easing. The decline in the unemployment rate cast doubt on that scenario...

Hope docks in my heart