#opt

Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#cheerfulness #humor #merriment #optimism #pleasantness

Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart. ↗

— Scott Simon

#love

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it. ↗

— Julius Robert Oppenheimer

#pessimism #pessimism

I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#gratitude #optimism #optimistic #gratitude

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? ↗

— Voltaire

#optimism #satire #satire

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#optimism #optimism

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can. ↗

— William Faulkner

#happiness #optimism #suffering #optimism

I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much. ↗

— Tiffany Reisz

#optimism

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#optimism

He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#hope #optimism #optimism