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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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.

Hal Borland
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.

Lucille Ball
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.

Walter Winchell
Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

Robert Browning
My sun sets to rise again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

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

Helen Keller
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Edgar Allan Poe
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

James Russell Lowell
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

William Arthur Ward
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimist lends encouragement.

Robert Collier
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

Ambrose Bierce
Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Emily Dickenson
We turn not older with years but newer every day.

Orison Swett Marden
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

William Arthur Ward
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

Dorothy Broude
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Robert H. Schuller
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Charlotte Bronte
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Zig Ziglar
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.

Norman Vincent Peale
Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible!

Rabindranath Tagore
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Martin Luther
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Light tomorrow with today.

Les Brown
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Bernhard Berenson
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.