There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, 'The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind'.
...be more guided by hope than fear.
Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.
I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.
HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.
It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.
Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.
I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive.
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.
The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness.
The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.
Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.
Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible!
The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad.
One positive thought can change your whole day.
Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.
"Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. "My own spirits is not equal to it, but I don't owe it any grudge. I envys them that is so blest!"
Those who move forward "with a" happy spirit will find that things alwas work out.
Living life with a smile is like throwing yeast into a bowl of flour, adding warm water and waiting for the flour to rise. It multiplies may times over.
