#optimism

"I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better."

"With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven."

"Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?"

"As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?"

"We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen."

"I can’t can’t, but since I can’t, I clearly can."

"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."

"What day is it?"It's today,"squeaked Piglet.My favorite day,"said Pooh."

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

"You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim."

"If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song."

"Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable."

"Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice."

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."

"It's snowing still,"said Eeyore gloomily."So it is.""And freezing.""Is it?""Yes,"said Eeyore. "However,"he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately."

"The world may be running out of water, but it isn’t running low on music. Let the dancing flow!"

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

"Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible."

"Look on the bright side,"said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway."

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