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Optimism Quotes


"As a lifetime optimist, my first tendency has always been to look for the best in others, the best in situations, and focus on what is working rather than what is not. Noticing the good has helped me immensely in life and business and it can do the same for you."


"When you hope for the best for sure something better will happen."


"Looking on the bright side of life is better than looking on the dark side of despair."


"Approaching this day with optimism and fire, with patience and determination, with compassion and love."


"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."


"You can switch off all the lights, but that won't stop the sun from rising."


"Do you see a problem in every opportunity or an opportunity in every problem?"


"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."


"A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise."


"There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life."


"Have an attitude of positive expectation."


"Be happy. Be happy for no reason at all. Believe it or not, you have the ability and free agency to make that choice."


"Let us now yearn for the possibility of building a happiness in every heart. Let us now build inward a new world of hope, a world of limitless possibilities for the children of tomorrow, where each soul can reach the heights of their potential to love and to be loved."


"The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade."


"Something will turn up."


"It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best." -Destruction."


"What an optimistic animal man is!" said Rumfoord rosily. "Imagine expecting the species to last for ten million more years - as though people were as well-developed as turtles!" He shrugged. "Well - who knows - maybe human beings will last that long, just on the basis of pure cussedness. What's your guess?"


"Dancing in the rain is better than despairing in the storm."


"Laugh and make the best of every situation. Understand that life is not perfect."


"Daring life, optimistic living."


"Maybe it was impossible. But maybe it wasn't. Like Vikus said, nothing would happen unless you hoped it could. If you had hope, maybe you could find the way to make things change. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try."


"We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience."


"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."


"I am going to open myself up to all that is superior in the world and beyond and I am going to spend time trying to take delight in things! Not finding ruin in them! If the ruin of you is what you look for, the ruin of you is what you are going to find!"


"You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?"


"When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes!"


"We focus on the reasons why we 'can't' at the expense of the far greater reasons why we 'can'."


"Positivity is like harmonics and patterns. Create positivity in your life, and allow it to interfere with more positivity. Allow that positivity to vibrate alongside more paths. The end result, is a beautiful day. However, why stop there? There is a reason that positivity parallels harmonics and patterns, so keep it going towards dream's end. If you feel like there isn't enough positivity in your life to get your day started, don't worry, I have plenty, so you can take some of mine. Infinity minus 1 is still infinity, so take some positivity from me, bathe in it, sing with it, and know that today, there is success within your value -- for you were able to wake up and treasure another day."



"We' win over 'negative' with 'positive'."


"The storm is the optimist's friend, but the pessimist's nightmare."


"Hope is a better friend than despair."


"...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner."


"When I look to the future it's so bright it burns my eyes."


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