Optimism Quotes - Page 6

Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing.

I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.

The true Christian can nurture a trustful optimism, because he is certain of not walking alone. In sending us Jesus, the eternal Son made man, God has drawn near to each of us. In Christ he has become our travelling companion.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…

He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder-no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

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

Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

You know, Molly, if you can hold in your mind what you want long enough, you shall have it.

When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street. The only direction forward is the way out.

There has never been a more urgent time than now for you to seek to maximize your potential for achieving greater balance in your life.

When all else fails, stare straight into the sun.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.

Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you'll see the world from another perspective.