Brian Banks Quotes

My life has run from misery to happiness.

If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

Everywhere in the world, you find good things.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

Blue is bright and gives us hope for the future.

Listen, if there's anything we need more of in this world, it's something that has a better ending or is more positive.

I have a hard time making movies that affirm life and say life is a good and happy place. That's not true about the world.

Life is not only about dark nights; it's also about beautiful, sunshiny mornings.

I have never known what it feels like to wake up in the morning full of the joys of spring, and wander through the day feeling capable of coping.

I view every day just as an opportunity.

You can hit the lowest low and face the darkest dark, but you can always get back up and get in the light. All of this is what actually makes life worth living.

I think in 'No Burden' there was a lot of positivity on the record.