#optimism

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#hope #optimism #snow #winter #age

Not all that have fallen are vanquished. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#heaven #hope #inspirational #jrr-tolkien #life-lessons

I'm optimistic about the possibility of having a positive attitude ↗

— Stuart Blythe

#optimism #positive #attitude

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated. ↗

— Albert Meltzer

#hope #inevitably #last #optimism

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#beauty #optimism #quality #weirdness #beauty

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#earthy #hope #innocence #love #optimism

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well. ↗

— Roméo Dallaire

#optimism #change

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#death

And you? Did you find the doorknob?” Hadrian picked up a jug and downed several swallows, drinking so quickly some of the water dripped down his chin. He poured some in his palm and rinsed his face, running his fingers through his hair. “I didn’t even get close enough to see a door.” “Well, look on the bright side”—Hadrian smiled—“at least you weren’t captured and condemned to death this time.” “That’s the bright side?” “What can I say? I’m a glass-half-full kinda guy. ↗

— Michael J. Sullivan

#death

I am, and always will be, the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams. ↗

— Eleventh Doctor

#dreams #hope #optimism #dreams