1,853 Quotes About Optimism

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so it can hold evermore wonders. -Andrew Harvey

She'd whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away.

If you doubt, you fall, you fail, you die. Do not doubt.

Many people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

If you want to get positive results you have to refuse to think negative thoughts by substituting them with constructive ones. When you develop a positive attitude toward life, your life will start having a positive result.

In our effort to be honest about our problems, it is not necessary that we cease to be mindful of our potential.

In fact, if you're wondering if I expect miracles---the answer is yes. Even when they don't seem to happen, I keep believing in them. Even when I stop believing in them, I'll always start again. Because if you don't have hope, what's left? I believe. And maybe they'll happen in a way I never saw coming--they usually do. Or maybe I'll find the way to make them happen myself. But ether way--I expect miracles.

To give optimism a hand up, we must come to understand that behind the mask of pessimism there is nothing more than fear bent on knocking us down.