#optimism

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#home #hometown #new-york-city #new-yorker #optimism

Lighten up.” I yawned, pointing across the street to the diner. “If I got upset every time someone beat me, or chased me, or tried to rape me, I’d be crying in my cereal every morning. No one likes a whiner. ↗

— Mary Calmes

#optimism #rape #change

You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield ↗

— Matthew Quick

#inspirational #optimism #inspirational

There’s a Chinese proverb that says “Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you & embracing those that strengthen you” Your mind is like a Ferrari (Or your favorite car) it is Awesome!...but if you put sand on the gas tank it won’t run. Don’t put sand (negativity) on your mind. Think positive, encouraging, uplifting thoughts, & the negative will soon evaporate. ↗

— Pablo

#motivational #optimism #postive-thinking #truth #wisdom

And suddenly, as if her head had cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they’re only in my own mind, she thought, they’re there and worth fighting for. I mustn’t give in. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#life #optimism #wonderful #inspirational

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

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

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#optimism #sheer #terror

It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation. ↗

— Earle Brown

#creation #creative #degree #general #generosity

Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#both #confidence #country #eternal #instilled