Brandon Sanderson Quotes

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

I'm a real optimist.

When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

I wish I could think of a positive point to leave you with. Will you take two negative points?

I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

I'm always optimistic.

Well, I'm an optimist.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

I am an optimistic lady.

I am an optimist.

I'm a pretty light and light-spirited person; I'm not a depressed guy.

I've always been optimistic - I always expect the sun to come out.

People see me smiling all the time... they see me pretty much happy all the time. I never carry a frown around.

I'm pretty easy-going and pretty happy most of the time.

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.