Charles M. Schulz Quotes

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.

… we should not indulge in looking backwards with envy to the past, but to keep our eyes ahead of us with hope for the future.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?" I felt pleased again. He was now questioning me. "What?" "That No is a better word than Yes," he replied.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way. I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time.

Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life. Do you want to be happy tomorrow? Then sow seeds of happiness today -count blessings, memorize Bible verses, pray, sing hymns, spend time with encouraging people. Do you want to guarantee tomorrow's misery? Then wallow in a mental mud pit of self-pity or guilt or anxiety today assume the worst, beat yourself up, rehearse your regrets, complain to complainers.

The manger dares us to believe the best is yet to be. And it could all begin today.