Daniel Woodrell Quotes

It's much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.

For me, the more I think about the problems of the world, I feel I have to be positive. I wouldn't like to fall into cynicism or nihilism. That's not in my nature.

I always like to have a glimmer of hopefulness, even in collapse.

Hope is not a matter of age.

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one.

I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.

You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

People want to feel hopeful.

I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

What I love best in life is new starts.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

I'm always optimistic.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

The way I am, I like to look forward instead of looking back.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.