“I may not understand the good in this situation, but it is there.”— Prolific Living, prolificliving.com
“If you want to persuade me that everything is going to be terrible, then we can talk ourselves into that. Or we can act.”— Barack Obama, rollingstone.com
“Be confident. You have to step up to the plate knowing you’re gonna knock it out the park!”— Breonna Rodriguez, vivala.com
“Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“List your best assets. Alone or with the help of the people who know you best, jot down 5 to 10 of your good qualities—great sense of humor, smart, a good friend—and repeat them to yourself whenever you think that you're ugly or too fat.”— Megan Othersen Gorman, prevention.com
“If you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“I believe, sometimes in spite of myself, in grace and better things to come and a time when we will all be whole.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“If you keep giving up on people so quickly, you're gonna miss out on something great.”— Robin Scherbatsky, amazon.com
“"I'm an optimist." "Well that's good because there's no irrefutable evidence. There's nothing that could convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to."”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“You’ve got to be optimistic to be single. Stupid. You have to be stupid. That’s what optimistic means, you know? It means stupid. An optimist is somebody who goes, ‘Hey, maybe something nice will happen.’ Why the fuck would anything nice happen?”— Louis CK, youtube.com
“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them. To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only the…”— Christian D. Larson, optimist.org
“Not everybody out there is a jerk, no matter what has happened in the past. In fact, most people are decent and looking for love. Rather than expecting the worst, it is more productive to look for what is different and better. That is the only way to find it!”— Jeremy Nicholson, psychologytoday.com
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.’”— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com
“This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.”— Michael Cunningham, amazon.com
“I am rolled up sleeves and dirty hands from a day spent working, I am gentle fingers, tender across your cheek. I am annoying optimism, the belief that things can, and will, always get better; I am dark days where my sun cannot seem to rise. I am worn shoes from wandering and the hibernation in my o…”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com