#optimism

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#ceased #i #like #long #long time

Optimism is the foundation of courage. ↗

— Nicholas M. Butler

#foundation #optimism

Optimism is the key. ↗

— Will Champion

#optimism

Not all that have fallen are vanquished. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

— Kamila Shamsie

#beauty #optimism #quality #weirdness #beauty

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load. ↗

— John Piper

#optimism-q #wonder #beauty

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. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#business

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

Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing. ↗

— Steve Voake

#optimism #survival #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