Paul Tsongas Quotes

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

I have a very optimistic view of my future right now. I'm very excited to see where it goes, but I try not to make plans just because I know how unpredictable life can be. Especially the life of an actor, and especially the life of an actor on 'Glee.' I just want to be happy and healthy and surrounded by people I love, as cheesy as it sounds.

There were a couple of months when I was approaching graduation where I started to think of graduating from college as the afterlife. Because it's this kind of crazy thing that you always know you're going to finish school inevitably, but nobody ever really tells you what happens afterwards.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

Hope is a great falsifier of truth.

Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation. (161)

Don't call it uncertainty-call it wonder.

What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said.

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?

I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

Sometimes when you win, you think you're going to get everything to go your way.

The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.

I don't know, but I think it's going to be good.