1,853 Quotes About Optimism

What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl.

And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out for ever.

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

A cold word from a cold man sends shivers throughout my body but my heart remains warm

He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a clergyman.

Life's true gift is the capacity to enjoy enjoyment.

Pessimism never won any battle.