Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

The problem isn’t a shortage of opportunities; it’s a lack of perspective.

With the right MINDSET, you can Survive, Thrive & Grow… Even in the Midst of turbulence and change

I would love to continue to be someone that is positive but also be someone that is objective,

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction...

When we worry about someone we send them a secret message – I don’t believe in you. When we worry about our life, we send ourselves a secret message – I don’t believe in me.

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so...

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much,...

Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul...

Just for the simple fact that you are alive to witness a new day, makes your life amazingly great. With the body, mind, and soul alive and in positive state, all things will surely remain...

Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you’re breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a...

She’d whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away.

Divine possibilities; visions, dreams and goals.

There has to be optimism out there. I’m putting in more trees.

It is best to live life gulping down one’s anxiety and flying higher than anybody else.

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.

No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world.” ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children’s story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship.

To be optimistic is NOT a blind sentiment in regard to the reality of life; but a hopeful view for the present moment

I have already made up my mind, don’t confuse me with facts.

You are the prisoner, the prison and the prison keeper. Only you hold the key to your freedom.

For you the cup isn’t half full or half empty, you’re always topping it up.

Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong...

A man’s mind is like his car. If it gets to knocking too much, he’d better have it overhauled or change it.

No matter how heavy the challenges we face in our life, embrace optimism, perseverance, tenacity and courage. Never lose faith and hope and a generous heart who live and breathes with a timeless love.

My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I’m luckier than other mortals, and they sure don’t come from visualizing victory. They’re the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to...

I had a dream about you. I said green was blue and yellow, and you said green was yellow and blue. You were like that with everything I said, taking the exact opposite stance, yet...

He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.

Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a more democratic society. In the process, they often exaggerate the power of big...

In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy’s always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs’s got that sly smile, like he always knows what’s up, like nothing can ruffle him.

Deep down, where my boys don’t know me, I’m an optimist.

Expect the best, prepare for the worst.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.

If you’re optimistic, think of it as bronze.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I...

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you...

Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.

You’re confident he’ll have found him, then?””Well, no. I didn’t sat that.””If there’s one thing I hate,” Volyova said, looking coldly at the other Triumvir, “it’s mindless optimism.

You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down

Life is what you make it, man.

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are

When we’re together,” he whispered, “we’ll only see each other, not the ugliness around us.

I’m in the middle between a pessimist and an optimist. I take full responsibility for the glass half full. Well, I take half-full responsibility. But if it were full of beer, I’d take full responsibility.