#opt

I feel like a millionaire on the back of an armored jet-ski my samurai girlfriend who loves me is charging at a cartel speedboat to win a game of chicken. Isn’t this the day’s best part? You don’t even have to remember to enjoy it. It enjoys you into itself. ↗

— Adam Levin

#love #optimism #positivity #inspirational

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#optimism #inspirational

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #optimism #possibilities #inspirational

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#inspirational #optimism #inspirational

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#optimism #perception #inspirational

Be forgiving and look forward to what's next, and not the past. ↗

— Emilia Furlo

#meaningful #optimistic #forgiveness

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#coping #difficulties #mountain #mountains #obstacle

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen. ↗

— James Redfield

#inspiration #optimism #inspirational

Justification has so dominated the landscape of Christian thought that adoption has been marginalized. We don't hear much about our adoption at all. We hear a lot about forgiveness, but very little about the staggering reality of our inclusion in Jesus' relationship with his Father in the Spirit. ↗

— C. Baxter Kruger

#salvation #forgiveness

When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or second-guessing ourselves. Focusing on the successful aspects of performance (even when the success is modest) promotes positive affect, reduces self-doubt, and helps to maintain motivation (e.g., McFarland & Ross, 1982).... Nevertheless, realistic optimism does not include or imply expectations that things will improve on their own. Wishful thinking of this sort typically has no reliable supporting evidence. Instead, the opportunity-seeking component of realistic optimism motivates efforts to improve future performances on the basis of what has been learned from past performances. ↗

— Sandra L. Schneider

#expectations #improvement #learning #optimism #performance