“No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story… — Suzanne V. Marshall Copy Share Image
Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The components of innocence - security, a sense of wonder, and optimism- are not just throwaway by-products of the ignorance of youth.” — Diane Medved Copy Share Image
My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I am too positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful, too determined to be defeated and too blessed to be… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The silver screen offers much in the way of over-the-top rom-coms, long lost love, saddening love stories and heart warming optimism that… — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
As Oregonians, we share a deep optimism for a better future. From the time of the Oregon Trail, we have understood that… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
Everything in life happens for a reason. God never gives you something you can't handle. So when things are bad, just remember,… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you.… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope,… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
China was the most optimistic place I'd ever been. Everybody I met was pretty much convinced that their children would have it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to go through it all again. All that time without you, always waiting, my foolish optimism that someday it… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Learn to see past your struggle & tears. Soar for a greater you & believe that your brighter days are on the… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Things will get better. Maybe not tomorrow, or even the tomorrow after that, but know that it will happen. Your tomorrow will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Out of every darkness, out of every bleak cloud, there will be a ray of sunshine, that is if your willing to… — Amanda Day Copy Share Image
When you feel like everything is falling, just keep your head up high and keep climbing. Because there is always hope for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations… — Lilian Katz Copy Share Image
There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
If you think POSITIVE, sounds becomes music, movement becomes dance, smile becomes meditation, and life becomes celebration. — Jerome Roldan Copy Share Image
I have the strength to overcome the impossible. I have courage to stand for what I believe in. I have faith that… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Reconnect to what makes you happy and brings you Joy. If there is something that used to make you happy which you… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love. — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I instilled in my children the importance of good values in business: hard work, determination, integrity, and optimism. — Henry Sy Copy Share Image
Remember...even if everything is wrong in your life today, as long as you are alive, you will always get another chance to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
Sanguine chuckled. "I like you, boy. You got optimism in these bones. I like you so much that I ain't gonna tell… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“Eritrean people are strong and caring. And despite all that we had been through we were brimming with optimism. Our country was… — Abeba Habtu Copy Share Image
“Sure, I had been accused of murder by my family and was wrapped up in a bizarre investigation, but there were such… — Tamara Summers Copy Share Image
I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
“Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image