Optimistic Quotes And Sayings

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“We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions…this especially applies to what we used to call bad things…the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.”
– James Redfield

“Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I’m a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it ‘the eaten by wolves factor.’ If I do something, what’s the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don’t worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.”
– Randy Pausch

“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it’s fun in the end.”
– Roberto Bolano

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
– Hugh Downs

“When I look at the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes!”
– Oprah Winfrey

“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 of being disappointed.”
– Tamar Myers

“The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
– Carl Sagan

“I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
– Antonio Gramsci

“I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.”
– Dylan Thomas

“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”

– Mark Twain

“Things are always better in the morning.”

– Harper Lee

“Head up, heart open. To better days!”
– T.F. Hodge

“By four o’clock, I’ve discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”
– Warren Ellis

“Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.”
– Bernard Beckett

“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”
– David Hume

“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 us or disappoint us.”
– Stephen Colbert

“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
– Voltaire

“It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.”
– Jimmy Buffet

“Thou hast seen nothing yet.”

– Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion”
– Voltaire

“I am so far from being a pessimist…on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”

– Eugene O Neil

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

“I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.”
– Arthur C. Clarke

“Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.”
– Rick Steves

“God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.”
– Charlotte Bronte

“I find nothing more depressing than optimism.”
– Paul Fussell

“If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.”

– William Faulkner

“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead.”
– Robert Brault

“It must be, I thought, one of the race’s most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that “it can’t happen here” — that one’s own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”
– John Wyndham

“Relax. They’re not going to kill us. They’re going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing.”
– Steve Voake

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