“You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it.”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“I’ve had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.”— Adelaide Anne Procter, amazon.com
“Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”— Edith Wharton,, amazon.com
“Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.”— E. B. White, amazon.com
“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”— E. B. White, amazon.com
“If you tried to see the good in yourself as much as you do everyone else, you’d change your life forever.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.”— Martin Seligman, thehindu.com
“My entire life can be described in one sentence: It didn’t go as planned, and that’s okay.”— Rachel Wolchin, goodreads.com
“I need to stop blaming myself for painful events that took place, and trust that everything has happened on schedule, and truly all is okay. I’ve learned to stop regretting, and to start being grateful.”— Melody Beattie, amazon.com
“...please believe that things are good with me, and even when they’re not, they will be soon enough. And I will always believe the same about you.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“Above all do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday I walk myself into a state of well being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. Thus if one keeps on walking everything will be all righ…”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.”— Patrick Ness, amazon.com
“People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.”— Albert Bandura, nytimes.com
“You see the best in people. You believe in the goodness of this world. And you always look for the light in the darkest places.”— Farah Ayaad, thoughtcatalog.com