#optimism

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#idiom #optimism #humor

Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#cheerfulness #humor #merriment #optimism #pleasantness

And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit. ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#optimism #imagination

Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #optimism #quip #simon-lewis #humor

We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has. ↗

— William Goldman

#humor #optimism #survival #humor

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#experience #lose #optimism #win #experience

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

Live with the assumption that every day it will rain. If it does, you were right. If it doesn’t, you were fortunate. ↗

— Zack W. Van

#optimism #silver-lining #inspirational

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. ↗

— Raymond Aron

#error #intellectual #most #often #optimism

My optimism for life carried through my work. ↗

— John Dyer

#life #optimism #through #work