Jim Butcher Quotes

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

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'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

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

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light.

Life is too short to be negative.

I am a hopeless optimist.

Nothing truly bad happens. There's always good and bad in any changes.

So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.

I believe that there is a silver lining in everything, and once you begin to see it, you'll need sunglasses to combat the glare.

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.

I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

You know, it's funny, no matter what I do - I mean, you're always going to have negatives and positives.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.