Unending Optimism Quotes

I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

I hope, after I'm gone, there will still be a Yes.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

I am an idealist, which can be tiring.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

I feel like I could go on forever.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.

I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished.

Hope springs eternal, even for hopeless crusades.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The whole notion of never growing up is incredibly intense and emotional.

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.