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1) If someone wants to be a part of your life, they’ll make an effort to be a part of it.
2) Stop running back to the person you need to be walking away from.
3) Forget those who forget you.
4) There’s always something good coming.
5) Don’t beg for anyone to stay in your life. It’s pathetic. If they want to be a part of your life, they’ll stay.”
6) “It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.” – Jacob on Lost
7)“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
8) “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchil
9) “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” – Dalai Lama XIV
10) “We’ll never survive!”
11) “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.” – William Goldman
12) “The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”– Oscar Wilde
14) “It isn’t all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.” – Gene Roddenberry
15) “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde
16) “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank
17) “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
– J.R.R.Tolkien
18) “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
– Marcus Aurelius
19) “For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
– Winston Churchill
20)“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”
– Cassandra Clare
21) “Beyond each impenetrable expanse of thundercloud obscurity reigns a boundless canopy of brilliant sapphire blue.”
– Cara Fox
22) “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
– Jimmy Dean
23) “Those who wish to sing, always find a song.”
– Swedish Proverb
24) ““I think I am going to have to supercharge my optimism to arm myself for the battle ahead. Trust me, it is going to be a battle.”
– Rebecca Bloom
25) “Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.”
– Zig Ziglar
26) “”When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
27) “Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.”
– Richard Bach
28) “The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead.”
– Robert Brault
29) “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
– Helen Keller
30) “I am so far from being a pessimist…on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
– Eugene O’Neill
31) “’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
– Antonio Gramsci
32) “The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”
– Mark Twain
33) “One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
– Lucille Ball
34) “Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”
– Voltaire
35) “These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.”
– Virginia Woolf
36) “I am enjoying my life because things aren’t going the way I planned.”
– Rohit Pandita
37) “Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ¬expect the worst.”
– Joyce Carol Oates
38) “Pessimism never won any battle.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
39) “Everything great was accomplished by fools who dreamed.”
– Emily Dana
40) “Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.”
– Terry Eagleton
41) “No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”
– David Hume
42) “I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.”
– Arthur C. Clarke
43) “If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
– Voltaire
44) “Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.”
– Rick Steves
45) “If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.”
– Lucy Larcom
46) “They can because they think they can.”
– Virgil
47) “Don’t let your failures define you—let them teach you.”
– Barack Obama
48) “Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
49) “Relax. They’re not going to kill us. They’re going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing..”
– Steve Voake
50) “Always something new, always something I didn’t expect, and sometimes it isn’t horrible.”
– Robert Jordan
51) “If I can’t joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.”
– James A. Owen
52) “When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
53) “To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.”
– Albert Schweitzer
54) “Faithless “I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
– Walt Disney
55) “A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.”
– Unknown
56) “In the hour of adversity, be not without hope; for crystal rain falls from black clouds.”
– Nizami
