The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little
Sure my rose-colored glasses don't let me see the world for what it is NOW but what they allow is the chance to see what the world would look like if people cared enough to plant more roses
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong.Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived.
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
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.
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you'll see the world from another perspective.
A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.
I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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.
Not all that have fallen are vanquished.
You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment...Joy is so fleeting. You never know when it might be snatched away.
The Warrior Ethos emphasizes placing the mission first, not accepting defeat, and being disciplined physically and mentally. Why? Because an American Soldier is a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.
It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us nowadays.MRS CHEVELEY: Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses.SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: You prefer to be natural?MRS CHEVELEY: Sometimes. But it is such a very difficult pose to keep up.(Act I., lines 132-140)
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