Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.

Even if you have a difficult season, you still believe the following year will be better and a good one.

No matter where you are, what point in your life you're at, it's not the end.

No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.

To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow - that is the secret to being happy.

So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.

Where one door shuts another opens.

Hope abides; therefore I abide. Countless frustrations have not cowed me. I am still alive, vibrant with life. The black cloud will disappear, The morning sun will appear once again In all its supernal glory.

When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

Today's teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens. Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

You know what they say, when one door closes, another Belvedere opens.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!

The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life.

Never, ever, ever think that your life is over, but know always that each day, each hour, each moment is another beginning, another opportunity, another chance to re-create yourself anew.

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

Every good thing that has happened in your life happened because something changed.

I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my boat." And we say, another boat, another boat, another boat. You have no idea how many boats are coming to your dock. It's a steady stream, and it doesn't matter how many of them you've missed.

No matter where life takes me. Find me with a smile.