J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

It's a divine art to be cheerful.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

I'm an eternal optimist.

I'm always an optimist!

I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.

While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.

I'm annoyingly optimistic.

Often, small things give me hope when big things feel so oppressively bleak.

Even if things are not going well for you... just stay in the positive way of thinking.

I try not to be too realistic. It's better to be over-positive.

I learnt in South America and in Africa that people who have really big problems in the ghetto always keep a sense of humour and remain positive. If not, you go down.

I'm someone who has always had a positive outlook towards life.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless