You are the author of your lives book. While there may be fixed chapters ahead, you choose how to fill the pages within each one.

Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their blindness. A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed. The optimism of people standing on the edge of the grave...

Always something new, always something I didn’t expect, and sometimes it isn’t horrible.

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from...

If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I’ve heard it said thatevery mushroom cloud has a silver lining.

But hey, what’s life without a little adversity?”That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our...

I was saying yes because when you’re in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you’re in love, you want to take every single one of them.

With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.

In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Just when normal life felt almost possible – when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing...

I can’t can’t, but since I can’t, I clearly can.

The new Manpower survey, I think, reflects the optimism in San Antonio.

Don’t live in a world of ‘I never should have’. Regret is a terrible burden to carry through life. It stoops your shoulders and keeps you looking down at the ground rather than up at...

Life has no remote….get up and change it yourself!

The term – ‘Fairy-Tales’ is so ironical in itself, when I sometimes sit to write love stories with a happy ending, it usually drags me into a dilemma whether, I should even begin with a...

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

Before asserting a prognosis on any patient, always be objective and never subjective. For telling a man that he will win the treasure of life, but then later discovering that he will lose, will harm...

has a most extraordinary effect upon all with whom he comes in contact. With this clear realization, I firmly determined that my mannerisms and speech in public would always reflect the cheerful certainty of victory—that...

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Everyday can be extraordinaryAnd ripe,Like a flower burst,If the will is there.

If you want to get positive results you have to refuse to think negative thoughts by substituting them with constructive ones. When you develop a positive attitude toward life, your life will start having a...

To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, “surprise” is the optimistic solution.

God always gives us a fresh start, it’s called today!

There are times when looking on the bright side takes a lot ot work. I’m taking a break from it tonight. I’ll be back at it tomorrow.

I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.

When you hear “Action” do it.When you see Elephants,Believe in it.When you want to do something do it now.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.

They cannot indulge in any detailed or merely logical defense of life; that would delay the enjoyment of it. These higher optimists, of whom Dickens was one, do not approve of the universe; they do...

I don’t know but it’s nice to sound optimistic, wouldn’t you agree.

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

The wind was against them now, and Piglet’s ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his way along, and it seemed hours before he got them into the shelter of the Hundred Acre...

Communists are the last optimists.

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

Life’s true gift is the capacity to enjoy enjoyment.

For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.

With the right Mindset…effective thinking is automatic.

To stuck in the comfort zone is to never find out what you are capable of.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it...

What day is it?”It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.My favorite day,” said Pooh.

Who underestimates is buried in the optimism of the deads. (Qui sous-estime s’enterre – Dans l’optimisme des morts.)

It is how we nurture the good and deal with the bad that ultimately shapes our destiny.

If you’re not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more…

Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. What if all dark, discouraging...

Duck wasn’t sure if it was optimism or fantasy, but hope had been such uncharted waters for him recently that he was having difficulty navigating them.

Just for the simple fact that I am alive to witness a new day, makes life amazingly great in my own perspective. With the body, mind, and soul alive and in positive state, all things...

We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.

Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark...