No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn. -Hal Borland

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. -Lucille Ball

Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. -Walter Winchell


My sun sets to rise again. -Robert Browning

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; they pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose. -Kahlil Gibran

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. -Helen Keller

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. -Edgar Allan Poe

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. -James Russell Lowell

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Life is a mission.  Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray.  Religion, science, philosophy, though still at variance upon many points, all agree in this, that every existence is an aim.  - Giuseppe Mazzini

"Instead of narrowing your world and simplifying your soul, you will have to multiply many times your two-fold being and complicate your complexities still further.  This is the road that Buddha and every great person has gone, whether consciously or not, insofar as fortune favored his quest.   The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All." -Hermann Hesse

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