Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking!

What’s wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up...

Happiness isn’t expensive, it just costs your will…

While you can’t control your experiences, you can control your explanations.

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you’d let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn...

At times what you expect and what happens don’t match. The faster you accept and adapt to what happened & work towards creating what you believed, that what you expected gets created in a whole...

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

Surround yourself with positive people.

I always have optimism, but I’m realistic. It was not with the expectation of great success that I started Tesla or SpaceX… It’s just that I thought they were important enough to do anyway.

To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in...

Cats are good at keeping clean […] Dogs are good at running forever without getting tired. And I think that pigs are good at being optimistic and not giving up even when things are really...

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.

What a world we are living in.Their is rain for rain, light for light and trees for all.

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other but what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred for...

It isn’t all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

If the sky falls, there’ll be a bigger sky behind it.

But you knew what would happen. Why would you choose to walk right into a situation where you know the person is going to be hurtful? It kills me to see you do that, and...

Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a needed counterbalance to shallow optimism and arrogant confidence in human power....

All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it,...

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand...

She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her.

A cold word from a cold man sends shivers throughout my body but my heart remains warm

Performance depends upon our actions an behaviors, which are activated by emotions, which are created when our MINDSET meets reality… Mindsets Matter Most

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance...

I began to feel lighthearted. Don’t ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

Love is a beautiful curse that looks like a blessing ! –

De leur meilleur côté t chons de voir les choses:Vous vous plaignez de voir les rosiers épineux;Moi je me réjouis et rends gr ces aux dieuxQue les épines aient des roses.

Usually the opposite of what we fear is our greatest fear.

Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.

Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like…me.

Negative thoughts are the causes of all depression and all stress.Be positive; never infect your mind with negative thoughts.

We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her.

All of the negativity and unsavory characters in this environment only serve to make the exceptions shine all the more brightly.

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

Positive thinking, daring life.

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

Open you eyes to the world around you.. Block out the screams of pessimism.. Release your inhibitions!

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again...

They’ve been stepping on my toes for years. It’s just a reason to get new boots.

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt...

These forecasts are higher than in the previous survey, particularly for the first half of 2006, suggesting increasing optimism among the forecasters.

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.