If you really believed that you’d lost your soul, then when I found you in Volterra, you would have realized immediately what was happening, instead of thinking we were both dead together. But you didn’t―you...

Optimism,” said Cacambo, “What is that?” “Alas!” replied Candide, “It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Behold, we know not anything;I can but trust that good shall fallAt last — far off — at last, to all,And every winter change to spring.

Earnings, by and large, are what investors are hanging their hats on, … Some earnings improvements have prompted some optimism, but we’ll know more about that next week.

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy,...

Making a decision based on fear is like painting a self-portrait of someone else.

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that’s as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all...

Commercial success will depend to a significant extent on adequate export arrangements. Time is short, and optimism is a fragile commodity.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

Sometimes it’s hard to see the rainbow when there’s been endless days of rain.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

Sometimes just the affirmation that a situation sucks can turn a mood around and inspire strength and optimism.

Have a smile for breakfast, you’ll be shitting joy by lunch.

We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.

We’ve got an unbeatable team.”- Sauron

Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.

A word about my personal philosophy. It is anchored in optimism. It must be, for optimism brings with it hope, a future with a purpose, and therefore, a will to fight for a better world....

i find nothing more depressing than optimism.

When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens.

Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up.

Live with the assumption that every day it will rain. If it does, you were right. If it doesn’t, you were fortunate.

I like his optimism,’ I said. ‘I like the way when he and some other rabbis saw a jackal in the ruins of Jerusalem, and the others began to cry, he laughed and said that...

I’ve never been more hopeful about our future. I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope. I’m not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that...

Remember that worrying will not go away by thinking the same thought again and again. Thinking something fresh, loving and uplifting instead of worrying. Replace your worse anxiety with cheerful optimism.

The way to get started is to take the first step with dream-powered optimism.

An optimist is a braver cynic.

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

If I can’t joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I’ve been through, by now I should have lost one...

Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light.

…if you live feeling likeYour glass is half empty, well,It may as well be empty all the way.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose

Edwin is prepared to believe that a glass exists. And further, that this glass holds liquid.

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will...

All Wishes are not from HEART !!!

The moment when you realize no one understands, no one ever did, no one ever will.You were alone, you always will be.But may be, just may be, someone will look up to you someday. And...

You may find that you have been telling yourself that practicing optimism is a risk, as though, somehow, a positive attitude will invite disaster and so if you practice optimism it may increase your feelings...

It comes from a time of optimism based on technology. It is a fake; it’s clearly not an artifact.

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?