Quotes on Optimistic Life

We live in the best of all possible worlds

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

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

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...