Optimism Quotes - Page 17

When the sun of consciousness first shone upon me, behold a miracle! The stock of my young life which had perished, steeped in the waters of knowledge grew again, budded again, was sweet again with the blossoms of childhood. Down in the depths of my being, I cried, ‘it is good to be alive!’ I held out two trembling hands to life, and in vain silence would impose dumbness upon me henceforth! The world to which I awoke was still mysterious; but there was hope and love and God in it, and nothing else mattered. Is it not possible that our entrance into heaven may be like this experience of mine?

I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

I always think fondly of my years inside Detention Center LC/766B.The women and the children I met had all lost people they loved, but they never wallowed in despair.Dying is one of the few experiences we'll eventually all enjoy firsthand, and like most shit that's commonplace, it's boring to dwell on. My fellow inmates/classmates (and really, what's the difference?) showed me it was more interesting to concentrate on the living.Because death is fucking predictable... ...but life has science experiments and free time and surprise naps and who knows what comes next?

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of other planets, or the annihilation of half the world--in short, pretty nearly anything but the facing up to the integral and irredeemable nature of mankind--can bring about utopian situations. It is the old error of the externalization of evil.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.

Look back, and smile on perils past!

I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!

If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.

Rejoicing is grounded in gratitude, with a keen appreciation for yourself, others, your abundance, and the beauty around you.

When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.

To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

You are born to win. But to become that true winner, you must make living a winning life your priority.

Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution.

Every day we make the whole world new... Or else grow old.

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

When you rearrange, make it meaningful and significant. Don’t rearrange just for the sake of rearranging. It would be as “pointless as rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.” In other words, why waste your time on frivolous activities which could be easily undone or do nothing to contribute to the solution of your problem?

The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.

The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.

Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been through, by now I should have lost one leg, three fingers, one buttock, most of my teeth, an ear, my spleen, and my sense of fun. But here I am.

Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love—be there for others—bring a little light into someone's day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest.

Ignore cynicism, appreciate criticism, and embrace optimism.

Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive.

You shall only continue to feel bitter when you continue to make your mind the doorstep for footprints of bitterness! When you mind your mind, you mind your mind, you mind your heart, you mind your body and you mind your spirit! The only rest stop in your body for bitterness is your mind. Don’t forget! Mind your mind!

I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

You can’t be beaten by something you laugh at.

There are two types of optimism, real optimism and fake, cowardly optimism. Real optimism sees the Valley of Dry Bones and says, ‘These bones will rise!’ Fake, cowardly optimism says, ‘I like these bones. Dry bones are so very artistic to look at.

When we allow negative messages to fester in our head, they take on a life of their own.

Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.

I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.

Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.

Every interaction is an opportunity to learn, Only if we are interested in improving rather than proving.

God is my strength and my defense. When I am weak, he makes me strong. When I am broken, he makes me whole.

When people around you do not support your personal growth and reinvention, it doesn’t mean you are on the wrong path or that you have to listen to them. Just because someone continues to judge you from where you were doesn’t mean you have to stay there.

You look furious,” Pritkin said, watching me.“I just—I can’t understand not fighting for your life— for what you want. Just giving up—”A corner of his mouth quirked. “No. You would not understand that. You never stop trying, do you?”“What else is there?”“Despair. Hopelessness. Anger. Depression.”“But those don’t get you anywhere.”He huffed out something that might have been a laugh, only it didn’t sound happy. “No. They don’t.

With persistent focus and determined spirit, you can achieve the God-given goals.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.

...if you live feeling likeYour glass is half empty, well,It may as well be empty all the way.

Learn how to love a broke man to marry a good man.

We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.

I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

No body is a looser either he is a Winner or a Learner

The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.

The fact that we can't see the beauty in something doesn't suggest that it's not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with a broad enough perspective to see it.

Change brings opportunity.

Perpetual optimism is good for the mind.Perpetual hope is good for the heart.Perpetual faith is good for the heart.

We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course of things and custom and history, and that this will happen to us, that we will experience it, that we — that is, I alone — will be the ones to see it. We always aspire, I suppose, to being the chosen ones, and it is unlikely otherwise that we would be prepared to live out the entire course of an entire life, which, however short or long, gradually gets the better of us.

Why say no when you could say yes!

Every great dream, meet an opposing views.The certainty within our spirit made the dream reality.

The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.

Why doesn’t anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?

You know, Molly, if you can hold in your mind what you want long enough, you shall have it.

When your intuition is strong, follow it.

Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique.

Joy, not sorrow.Laughter, not tears.Life, not death.Love, not blame.