Quotes about Optimism

No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.

Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

anything is possible but probably not that

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

While there is hope, do not distrust the gods;

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

I never worry about tomorrow. For instance I know I am going to have to leave here very soon, and I haven't the faintest idea where I'll end up or how I shall earn my living, but I know that something will turn up. If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

As long as matters are really hopeful," wrote Chesterton, "hope is mere flattery or platitude. It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable.

Full of hope, you'll relax, confident again; you'll look around, sit back, and take it easy.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.