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"The world seems to want us to be sad and angry because bad things frequently happen. But I say we should feel the opposite. We should be happy and cheerful because good things happen. We should be delighted to see the sun rise and stars glow and rainbows color stormy skies. We should savor every simple breath and eat each meal with gratitude. We should slumber in sweet dreams and relish moments of laughter and love. We should take more notice of the joys and kindnesses that do exist, still dictating the actions of millions of good people all over the world. Life is filled with pleasant moments, not just grief. We should be happy because this is true."
"Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism."
"But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best."
"What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down."
"I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody."
"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"
"The world turned itself into a better place around him."
"Act as though everything will be perfectly fine - because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go."
Explore more quotes by Douglas Sirk
"In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is."
"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."
"If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason."
"Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films."
"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."
"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."
"There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art."
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