#opt

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 best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile. To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you. ↗

— Christian D. Larson

#inspirational #love #optimism #strength #anger

So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and care-free vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios. ↗

— Scott Simon

#family

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting. ↗

— Josef Albers

#curious #heart #just #optical #painting

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#atomic bomb #bomb #cold #cold war #continue

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. ↗

— Robert G. Allen

#buying #many #optimist #out #pessimist

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#indefatigable #mind #optimism

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time. ↗

— Chris Anderson

#adoption #advertising #boom #broadband #during

No, I'm not adopting any children. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#any #children #i

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #bond #develop #eager #expanding

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris. ↗

— Asia Argento

#french #go #i #live #paris