#optimism

"It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad."

"Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches."

"I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels."

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

"So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in."

"I had a dream about you. I said green was blue and yellow, and you said green was yellow and blue. You were like that with everything I said, taking the exact opposite stance, yet completely agreeing with me. That’s how I knew you loved me."

"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 the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse."

"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."

"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

"I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism."

"The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about."

"The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results."

"Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success."

"Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful."

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

"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 would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation."

"Future is one of the wildest experiences that you will ever have."

"Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are"

"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."