Rupert Sanders Quotes

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

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 really dig the scene that's happening now, I really do, because there might be a lot of bad things going on, but if out of all of those bad things ten per cent of the groovy part of it stays, wow... you can't beat that.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

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

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Things always look better when you haven't seen them.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

I love life because what more is there?

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

Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

The scalpel won't make you happy.

Something will turn up.

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.