Optimistic Quotes

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You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down — Charlie Chaplin
We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad… — James Redfield
We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen. — James Redfield
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.… — Stephen Colbert
If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign. — James A. Owen
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. — Voltaire
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that… — Albert Einstein
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. — Henri Matisse
I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is… — Joey Comeau
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. — Arthur C. Clarke
It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own… — John Wyndham
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. — Khalil Gibran
Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you… — William Sloane Coffin
We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside. — Joel Osteen
The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own,… — Margaret Atwood
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the… — Roberto Bolano
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. — Eleanor Roosevelt
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? — Voltaire
If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride — Karen Horney

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