Richelle Mead Quotes

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.

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

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

No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

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.

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

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

I have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always half full.

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

Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life.

Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.

I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

I'm such a fan of the glass being half full.

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

I just sort of choose to see the good in things, and I choose to - I don't know - look on the bright side, as cheesy as it sounds.

When I wake up in the morning, I don't say, 'Oh, I have cancer. I say 'Another day. How you feeling? Good? Good.'

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

I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life.

No matter how bad or negative it gets, I somehow try to find the silver lining.

I've never really let any kind of negative things affect me, generally. I would take a positive out of the most desperately horrible situation.